Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In law, one to whom anything is abandoned.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Law) One to whom anything is legally abandoned.
Etymologies
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abandon + -ee
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Examples
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Thing #1: I finally got a picture of Morgan, the Petco abandonee.
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I find myself wearing it only to intensify the feeling of a lonely abandonee in the midst of a big cruel world…
Archive 2007-01-01 Ayala Sender 2007
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I find myself wearing it only to intensify the feeling of a lonely abandonee in the midst of a big cruel world…
ACT III: The Heart Twitching Longing of No. 19 Ayala Sender 2007
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