Verb
The word is derived from quit
of Quit
Source: Webster's dictionaryI quitted my seat in the House of Delegates, from a Conviction that I was no longer able to do any essential Service. George Mason
It is a very strange sensation to inexperienced youth to feel itself quite alone in the world, cut adrift from every connection, uncertain whether the port to which it is bound can be reached, and prevented by many impediments from returning to that it has quitted. Charlotte Brontë
In Castling, the King must be moved first, or before the Rook is quitted. If the Rook be quitted before the King is touched, the opposing player may demand that the move of the Rook shall stand without the Castling being completed. Howard Staunton
The place of my birth, and residence for nearly sixteen years, in the early part of my life, became endeared to my feelings and affections; and more especially so after I had quitted it for an unknown place, and to associate with strangers. John Britton
Good land should not be quitted for a bad landlord. French Proverb