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Definition: QUITTED |
QUITTED1. Of Quit |
Date "QUITTED" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references) |
Crosswords: QUITTED |
| English words defined with "QUITTED": Quittable. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "QUITTED": absorbing barrier, absorbing state ♦ Catiline's Conspiracy ♦ Gay Deceiver ♦ Island of the Seven Cities ♦ Martano. (references) |
| Domain | Title |
Books | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Author | Date | Quotation |
John Locke | 1690 | But because no political society can be, nor subsist, without having in itself the power to preserve the property, and in order thereunto, punish the offences of all those of that society; there, and there only is political society, where every one of the members hath quitted this natural power, resigned it up into the hands of the community in all cases that exclude him not from appealing for protection to the law established by it. (Second Treatise of Government) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Title | Author | Quote |
Emma | Austen, Jane | He quitted the militia and engaged in trade, having brothers already established in a good way in London, which afforded him a favourable opening. |
Scarlet Letter | Hawthorne, Nathaniel | It seemed not yesterday, not one, nor two, but many days, or even years ago, since he had quitted them. |
Gulliver's Travels | Swift, Jonathan | Before he quitted Redriff, he left the custody of the following papers in my hands, with the liberty to dispose of them as I should think fit. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "QUITTED" is generally used as a lexical verb (past tense) -- approximately 57.14% of the time. "QUITTED" is used about 14 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (past tense) | 57.14% | 8 | 124,375 |
| Lexical Verb (past participle) | 42.86% | 6 | 143,867 |
| Total | 100.00% | 14 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "QUITTED"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
Chinese | æ"¾å¼ƒ (Abandonment, Abnegate, Abnegated, Abnegating, Abort, Aborted, Ditched, Ditching, quit, Quits, Quitting, relinquish, relinquished, relinquishing, renege, renounce, Renounced, Renouncing, Waive, Waived, Waiver, Waiving). (various references) | ||||
French | quittai, quittés, quittées, quittâmes, quittèrent. (various references) | ||||
German | verlassen (abandon, abandoned, abandonment, derelict, derelicted, desert, deserted, desertion, desolate, evacuate, exit, forlorn, forsake, leave, lonely, loose, move away, quit, quitting, solitary, to derelict, to desert, to evacuate, to forlorn, to leave, untrodden). (various references) | ||||
Korean | 종료하ëŠ" (quit). (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | ittedquay | ||||
Derivations | |
Words ending with "QUITTED": acquitted. (additional references) | |
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"QUITTED" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: aquitted, equitted, quated, quette, quinted, quirted, Quitak, quited, quiteh, quiten, quitey, Quitte, quoited. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-e-i-q-t-t-u" | |
-2 letters: equid, quiet, quite. | |
-3 letters: diet, dite, duet, duit, edit, etui, quid, quit, tide, tied. | |
-4 letters: die, dit, due, dui, ted, tet, tie, tit, tui, tut. | |
-5 letters: de, ed, et, id, it, ti, ut. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-e-i-q-t-t-u" | |
+2 letters: acquitted. | |
+3 letters: antiquated, aquatinted, briquetted. | |
+4 letters: equidistant, quantitated. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Commercial 4. Quotations: Historic | 5. Quotations: Fiction 6. Usage Frequency 7. Translations: Modern 8. Derivations | 9. Anagrams 10. Bibliography |
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