Dereliction frees a territory from the sovereignty of the present owner State.
Dereliction as a mode of losing corresponds to occupation as a mode of acquiring territory.
Dereliction is effected through the owner State's complete abandonment of the territory with the intention of withdrawing from it for ever, thus relinquishing sovereignty over it.
Actual abandonment alone does not involve dereliction as long as it must be presumed that the owner has the will and ability to retake possession of the territory.
But operation of nature, revolt, and dereliction must be specially discussed.
A mind, destitute of resources, and unendowed with that elasticity which is the badge of an immortal nature, when placed in your circumstances, might probably sink into dereliction and despair.
But I will not give way to this dereliction and despair.
Many and various indeed are the steps by which it may be tarnished, short of the sacrifice of chastity, and the total dereliction of character.
Good and loving hearts, that long for a human form which they can revere, will be unprepared and for a time must suffer much from the final dereliction of Pius IX.
But apart from the treachery of the king of Naples and the dereliction of the Pope, it was impossible it should end thoroughly well.
The dereliction from principle of her government seems certain, and thus far the nation, despite the remonstrance of a few worthy men, gives no sign of effective protest.
I have endeavored to show, that the holding of slaves is not sinful, per se; but if slaveholders fail to discharge the duties enjoined on them, the Divine Being will hold them accountable for their dereliction of duty.
Now, the dereliction of poor Edward Langdale was that his lips did not altogether confine themselves to the cheek of Lucette.
Disgrace and infamy, however, will ever be attached to their names for so flagrant a dereliction of duty to the Irish people!
Mr. Bell appears never to have forgiven himself for his dereliction from the path of virtue, and only urged, in extenuation of his conduct, the cruel necessity he was under to oblige his patron.
And here there seems no doubt that we commonly find it morally admirable without reference to any end served by it, and when the dangers which call it forth might be avoided without any dereliction of duty.
I beseech you, the dangers that attend any dereliction from the duty of matrimonial confidence.
This tone was often assumed by the friends of the exiled family, and in them it was without any dereliction of their object.
This sense of dereliction and delinquency may take extreme forms.
The long-pending claim of the owners of the ship Masonic for loss suffered through the admitted dereliction of the Spanish authorities in the Philippine Islands has been adjusted by arbitration and an indemnity awarded.
It is at least more honourable to resist popular prejudice than to yield to it a passive obedience; and what we can ascertain it would be a dereliction of truth to conceal.
The Quakers, therefore, consider those who marry out of the society, as guilty of such a dereliction of Quaker-principles, that they can be no longer considered as sound or consistent members.
These noble instances of the dereliction of gain, where it has interfered with principle, I feel it only justice to mention in this place.
All, whether public or private, supported by patronage or individual contribution, were and are symptoms of Art in distress, monuments of public dereliction and decay of Taste.
Let me enjoy my own conviction, Not watch my neighbor's faith with fretfulness, Still spying there some dereliction Of truth, perversity, forgetfulness!
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "dereliction" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
