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quit

adj
/kwɪt/

Etymology

From Middle English quiten, quyten, from Anglo-Norman quitter, Old French quitter, from quitte (“acquitted, quit”), ultimately from Latin quietus, which itself derives from Proto-Indo-European *kʷyéh₁-ti-s, from *kʷyeh₁- (“to rest”). Doublet of coy, quite, quiet, and quietus. Compare Dutch kwijten (“to quit”), German Low German quitten (“to quit”), German quitten, quittieren, Danish kvitte, Swedish qvitta, kvitta (“to quit, leave, set off”), Icelandic kvitta.

  1. derived from quietus
  2. derived from quitter
  3. derived from quitter
  4. inherited from quiten

Definitions

  1. Released from obligation, penalty, etc

    Released from obligation, penalty, etc; free, clear, or rid.

  2. To leave (a place).

    • The British quit India in the 1940s.
    • Jones had no sooner quitted the room, than the petty-fogger, in a whispering tone, asked Mrs Whitefield, “If she knew who that fine spark was?”
    • He quitted the lake on the 23rd of September, and on the 4th of October arrived at Queenstown, on the shores of Lake Wakatipu, having succeded in finding a transitable route.

  3. To set at rest

    To set at rest; to free, as from anything harmful or oppressive; to relieve; to clear; to liberate.

    • To quit you […] of this fear, […]you have already lookt Death in the face; what have you found so terrible in it?
  4. ›+ 11 more definitions

    1. To release from obligation, accusation, penalty, etc.

      To release from obligation, accusation, penalty, etc.; to absolve; to acquit.

      • God will relent, and quit thee all his debt;

    2. To abandon, renounce (a thing).

    3. To resign from (a job, office, position, etc.).

      • After having to work overtime without being paid, I quit my job.

    4. To stop, give up (an activity).

      • John is planning to quit smoking.

    5. To close (an application).

    6. To pay (a debt, fine etc.).

      • Edmund, enkindle all the sparkes of Nature To quit this horrid acte.
      • that judge that quits each soul his hire

    7. To conduct or acquit (oneself)

      To conduct or acquit (oneself); to behave (in a specified way).

      • Be strong and quit yourselves like men, O ye Philistines, that ye be not servants unto the Hebrews, as they have been to you: quit yourselves like men, and fight.
      • Samſon hath quit himſelf Like Samſon,

    8. To carry through

      To carry through; to go through to the end.

      • Never worthy prince a day did quit With greater hazard and with more renown.

    9. To repay, pay back (a good deed, injury etc.).

      • Vnthankfull wretch (said he) is this the meed, With which her soueraigne mercy thou doest quight?
      • Forgive me, Rogero: 'tis my fate To love thy friend and quit thy love with hate.

    10. To repay (someone) for (something).

      • But if that I knewe what his name hight, For clatering of me I would him ſone quight; For his falſe lying, of that I ſpake never, I could make him ſhortly repent him forever:[…]

    11. Any of numerous species of small passerine birds native to tropical America.

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Derived

unquit, coquit, don't quit your day job, force quit, hit it and quit it, quiet quit, quit buddy, quitclaim, quit claim deed, quitline, quit lit, quitrent, quits, quit scores, quitsies, quittable, quittal, quitter, quit the oxygen habit, quit while one is ahead, ragequit, rage quit

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA