Contents -AUTHOR INDEX -BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORD

Mawson, C.O.S., ed. (1870–1938). Roget’s International Thesaurus. 1922.

Class V. Words Releasing to the Voluntary Powers
Division (II) Intersocial Volition
Section IV. Possessive Relations
1. Property in general

776. Loss.

   NOUN:LOSS, perdition, deperdition [archaic]; forfeiture, lapse.
  privation, bereavement; deprivation (dispossession) [See Taking]; riddance; damage, squandering, waste.
   VERB:LOSE; incur -, experience -, meet with- a loss; miss; mislay, let slip, allow to slip through the fingers; be deprived of; be without (exempt) [See Possession]a; forfeit, pay with.
  SQUANDER; get rid of [See Relinquishment]; waste [See Waste].
  BE LOST, lapse.
   ADJECTIVE:LOSING &c. v.; not having [See Exemption]
  DEPRIVED OF; shorn of, deperdite [rare], denuded, bereaved, bereft, minus [colloq., exc. in math.], cut off; dispossessed [See Taking]; rid of, quit of; out of pocket.
  LOST &c. v.; long lost; irretrievable (hopeless) [See Hopelessness]; off one’s hands.
   INTERJECTION:FAREWELL TO! adieu to! good riddance.    QUOTATIONS:

1. Farewell! a long farewell, to all my greatness!—Henry VIII
2. By losing rendered sager.—Byron
3. All is lost save honor.—misquoted remark of Francis I