RELEASEMENT
RELE'ASEMENT, noun The act of releasing from confinement or obligation.
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RELEASER
RELE'ASER, noun One who releases.
RELEASING
RELE'ASING, participle present tense Liberating from confinement or restraint; freeing from obligation or responsibility, or from pain or other evil; quitclaiming.
RELEGATE
REL'EGATE, verb transitive [Latin relego; re and lego, to send.] To banish; to send into exile.
RELEGATED
REL'EGATED, participle passive Sent into exile.
RELEGATING
REL'EGATING, participle present tense Banishing.
RELEGATION
RELEGA'TION, noun [Latin relegatio.] The act of banishment; exile.
RELENT
RELENT', verb intransitive [Latin blandus, which unites the Latin blandus with lentus. The English is from re and Latin lentus, gentle, pliant, slow, the primary sense of which ...
RELENTING
RELENT'ING, participle present tense Softening in temper; becoming more mild or compassionate.RELENT'ING, noun The act of becoming more mild or compassionate.
RELENTLESS
RELENT'LESS, adjective Unmoved by pity unpitying; insensible to the distress of others; destitute of tenderness; as a pray to relentless despotism.For this th' avenging pow'r em...
RELESSEE
RELESSEE', noun [See Release.] The person to whom a release is executed.
RELESSOR
RELESSOR', noun The person who executes a release.There must be a privity of estate between the relessor and release.
RELEVANCE
REL'EVANCE,REL'EVANCY, noun [See Relevant.]1. The state of being relevant, or of affording relief or aid.2. Pertinence; applicableness.3. In Scots law, sufficiency to infer the ...
RELEVANCY
REL'EVANCY, n. [See Relevant.]1. The state of being relevant, or of affording relief or aid.2. Pertinence; applicableness.3. In Scots law, sufficiency to infer the conclusion.
RELEVANT
REL'EVANT, adjective [Latin relever, to relieve, to advance, to raise; re and lever, to raise.]1. Relieving; lending aid or support.2. Pertinent; applicable. The testimony is no...
RELEVATION
RELEVA'TION, noun A raising or lifting up. [Not in use.]
RELIANCE
RELI'ANCE, noun [from rely.] Rest or repose of mind, resulting from a full belief of the veracity or integrity of a person, or of the certainty of a fact; trust; confidence; dep...
RELIC
REL'IC, noun [Latin reliquiae, from relinquo, to leave; re and linquo.]1. That which remains; that which is left after the loss or decay of the rest; as the relics of a town; th...
RELICT
REL'ICT, noun [Latin relictus, relicta, from relinquo, to leave.]A widow; a woman whose husband is dead.
RELIEF
RELIE'F, noun1. The removal, in whole or in part, of any evil that afflicts the body of mind; the removal or alleviation of pain, grief, want, care, anxiety, toil or distress, o...
RELIER
RELI'ER, noun [from rely.] One who relies, or places full confidence in.
RELIEVABLE
RELIE'VABLE, adjective Capable of being relieved; that may receive relief.
RELIEVE
RELIE'VE, verb transitive [Latin relevo. See Relief.]1. To free, wholly or partially, from pain, grief, want, anxiety, care, toil, trouble, burden, oppression or any thing that ...
RELIEVED
RELIE'VED, participle passive1. Freed from pain or other evil; eased or cured; aided; succored; dismissed from watching.2. Alleviated or removed; as pain or distress.
RELIEVER
RELIE'VER, noun One that relieves; he or that which gives ease.
RELIEVING
RELIE'VING, participle present tense Removing pain or distress, or abating the violence of it; easing; curing; assisting; dismissing from a post, as a sentinel; supporting.
RELIEVO
RELIE'VO, noun Relief; prominence of figures in statuary, architecture, etc.; apparent prominence of figures in painting.