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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



... because Janko was coming back. But his two brothers when they caught sight of him alive and well were so frightened that they took to their heels and ran off as fast as they could go and what's more they've never shown themselves since. And good riddance, too, I say, for they were wicked evil fellows and would only have injured Janko further ...
— The Laughing Prince - Jugoslav Folk and Fairy Tales • Parker Fillmore
... time does Mr. Smith intend to bring the book out? It is his now. I hand it and all the trouble and care and anxiety over to him—a good riddance, only I wish ...
— Charlotte Bronte and Her Circle • Clement K. Shorter
... th'unrighteous which alive remaine; But the ungodly ones he doth forsake, 360 By living long to multiplie their paine; Else surely death should be no punishment, As the Great Iudge at first did it ordaine, But rather riddance from long languishment. ...
— The Poetical Works of Edmund Spenser, Volume 5 • Edmund Spenser
... through with my errand," he said, moving toward the steps and pausing with one hand on a great white column. "The sooner you get him out of my barn the better riddance it will be. There's one thing certain, though, and that is that you don't lay eyes on him without the doctor. He's downright ...
— The Deliverance; A Romance of the Virginia Tobacco Fields • Ellen Glasgow
... a 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 quickly be made a fool, and ...
— The Puritain Widow • William Shakespeare [Apocrypha]


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