Renounced

Examples

• She married me in opposition to her father's wish, and he renounced her. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• Perdita, wedded to an imagination, careless of what is behind the veil, whose charactery is in truth faulty and vile, Perdita has renounced me. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• How very few of those men in a rank of life to address Emma would have renounced their own home for Hartfield! Jane Austen. Emma.
• But you have renounced his service but now, said Wamba. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• The community of women and children is renounced; the institution of common or public meals for women (Laws) is for the first time introduced (Ar. Plato. The Republic.
• I knew myself when I renounced it. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• Do you think that I renounced the Protectorate (and I have renounced it) in a fit of spleen? Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• I renounced it to gain --no matter what--for that also I have lost. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• My brother has quarrelled with me,' sobbed Lizzie, 'and renounced me. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• Rousseau consciously set aside the problem of nationality or citizenship; he was cosmopolitan, and explicitly renounced the idea of planning the education of a Frenchman or a Swiss. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• He could not bring himself to acknowledge, in presence of such an assembly, the son whom he had renounced and disinherited. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• Go to Lucas Beaumanoir, and say thou hast renounced thy vow of obedience, and see how long the despotic old man will leave thee in personal freedom. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• That done, and your present means, derived from my husband, renounced, I charge myself with your support. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• Not dead in the first hours of her life, as my cruel sister told me, but sternly nurtured by her, after she had renounced me and my name! Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• I thank you that you renounced my prayers; for you thus cured me of half my esteem. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.

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