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Riddance   /rˈɪdəns/   Listen
noun
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



... flare of anger died. "Good riddance," he breathed. "How long will he last, alone? Without a space-fitness card, the poor idiot probably imagines himself ...
— The Planet Strappers • Raymond Zinke Gallun
... "A good riddance!" said Earl Gilbert; "the miscreants eat as much as ten score yeomen, and my knaves are weary with guarding them. If this matter brings all the pagans in Palestine on our hands, we shall have enough to do without looking ...
— The Prince and the Page • Charlotte M. Yonge
... fair riddance! My father's laid in dust; his Coffin and he is like a whole-meat-pye, and the worms will cut him up shortly. Farewell, old Dad, farewell. I'll be curb'd in no more. I perceived a son and heir may ...
— The Puritain Widow • William Shakespeare [Apocrypha]
... CUMMERBUND had stopped, or represented me as a worthless riddance of bad rubbish, all would have been well; but most unhappily he did exceed his instructions, and added that I was of respectable, well-to-do parentage, and very industrious young chap with first-class abilities, and likely to obtain lucrative ...
— Baboo Jabberjee, B.A. • F. Anstey
... kind of virtuous resignation and resolution, infinitely assuring to her brother. But he was getting tired of the discussion, and desirous to end it. Anxious as he was to be rid of his sister, and to effect the riddance on the best possible terms, he did not mean to be bored by her just then. So he spoke ...
— Run to Earth - A Novel • M. E. Braddon


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