In Cornwall he was an active political worker for the Liberal Party knighted in 1910, and in 1928 was made a Bard of the Cornish cultural society Gorseth Kernow, adopting the Bardic name Marghak Cough ('Red Knight').įrom his Oxford time he was known as a writer of excellent verse. After some journalistic experience in London, mainly as a contributor to the Speaker, he settled in 1891 at Fowey in Cornwall. From 1886 he was for a brief time a classical lecturer at Trinity. He was educated at Newton Abbot Proprietary College, at Clifton College, and Trinity College, Oxford.
Although a prolific novelist, he is remembered mainly for the monumental publication The Oxford Book of English Verse 1250–1900 (later extended to 1918) and for his literary criticism.Īrthur Quiller-Couch was born in the town of Bodmin, Cornwall, by the union of two ancient local families, the Quiller family and the Couch family. Princeton's WordNet (0.Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch (21 November 1863-) was a Cornish writer who published using the pseudonym Q. abdicated his throne by deserting it.Ībandon, abdicate, abjure, cast off, cease, cede, depart from, desert, discontinue, forego, forsake, forswear, give up, leave, recant, relinquish, renounce, repudiate, resign, retire from, retract, surrender, vacate, withdraw fromĪdopt, advocate, assert, cherish, claim, court, defend, favor, haunt, hold, keep, maintain, occupy, prosecute, protect, pursue, retain, seek, support, undertake, uphold, vindicate Forsake, like abandon, may be used either in the favorable or unfavorable sense desert is always unfavorable, involving a breach of duty, except when used of mere localities as, "the Deserted Village." While a monarch abdicates, a president or other elected or appointed officer resigns. Abandon is applied to both good and evil action a thief abandons his designs, a man his principles. Abandon implies previous association with responsibility for or control of forsake implies previous association with inclination or attachment, real or assumed a man may abandon or forsake house or friends he abandons an enterprise forsakes God. Relinquish commonly implies reluctance the fainting hand relinquishes its grasp the creditor relinquishes his claim.
We quit business, give up property, resign office, abandon a habit or a trust. A cowardly officer deserts his ship the helpless passengers abandon it. The king abdicates his throne, cedes his territory, deserts his followers, renounces his religion, relinquishes his titles, abandons his designs. Quit carries an idea of suddenness or abruptness not necessarily implied in abandon, and may not have the same suggestion of finality. Abandon is a word of wide signification, applying to persons or things of any kind abdicate and resign apply to office, authority, or power cede to territorial possessions surrender especially to military force, and more generally to any demand, claim, passion, etc.
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