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Riddance   /rˈɪdəns/   Listen
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Riddance  n.  
1.
The act of ridding or freeing; deliverance; a cleaning up or out. "Thou shalt not make clean riddance of the corners of thy field."
2.
The state of being rid or free; freedom; escape. "Riddance from all adversity."





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"Riddance" Quotes from Famous Books



... the company is commonly the dullest, so these authors, while they are afraid to make you laugh or cry, out of pure good manners, make you sleep. They are so careful not to exasperate a critic, that they never leave him any work; so busy with the broom, and make so clean a riddance, that there is little left either for censure or for praise: For no part of a poem is worth our discommending, where the whole is insipid; as when we have once tasted of palled wine, we stay not to examine it glass by glass. But ...
— The Works of John Dryden, Volume 5 (of 18) - Amboyna; The state of Innocence; Aureng-Zebe; All for Love • John Dryden
... an effort to speak with his customary easy self-possession, and Mr. Hornblower's answer was to slam the door upon him. "Good riddance to damned bad ...
— Other People's Business - The Romantic Career of the Practical Miss Dale • Harriet L. Smith
... could have risen from no other. By these energies, and by such others as (under judicious encouragement) would naturally grow out of and unite with these, the multitudes, who have risen, stand; and, if they desert them, must fall.—Riddance, mere riddance—safety, mere safety—are objects far too defined, too inert and passive in their own nature, to have ability either to rouze or to sustain. They win not the mind by any attraction of grandeur or sublime delight, either in effort or in endurance: for the mind gains consciousness ...
— The Prose Works of William Wordsworth • William Wordsworth
... "'Good riddance!' says Dinah. 'I'm right down tired o' bein' lectured,' says she. 'Now I can roll over in the buttercups an' sing, an' be happy an' do ...
— Jewel's Story Book • Clara Louise Burnham
... with soldiers of the regiment of Carignan-Salieres. These bronzed veterans of Savoy came to New France fresh from the Turkish wars, and the sight of their plumed helmets and leathern bandoleers, as they marched through the narrow streets, promised the colonists a speedy riddance of their enemies. The health of Louis XIV. was nowhere in his broad dominions drunk more heartily ...
— Old Quebec - The Fortress of New France • Sir Gilbert Parker and Claude Glennon Bryan


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