Renunciation
[rɪnʌnsɪ'eɪʃ(ə)n] or [rɪ,nʌnsɪ'eʃən]
Definition
(noun.) the act of renouncing; sacrificing or giving up or surrendering (a possession or right or title or privilege etc.).
(noun.) an act (spoken or written) declaring that something is surrendered or disowned.
Editor: Tod--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) The act of renouncing.
(n.) Formal declination to take out letters of administration, or to assume an office, privilege, or right.
Typist: Rowland
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Rejection, repudiation, abnegation, abjuration.[2]. Surrender, cession, abandonment, resignation.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Rejection, repudiation, abjuration, abnegation, abandonment, cession,surrender,[See CESSION]
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Definition
n. disowning: rejection: abandonment: (law) the legal act by which a person abandons a right acquired but without transferring it to another: in the Anglican baptismal service the part in which the candidate in person or by his sureties renounces the devil and all his works.—n. Renun′ciance renunciation.—adj. Renun′ciātory.—Renunciation of a lease the surrender of a lease.
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Examples
- Jesus had called men and women to a giant undertaking, to the renunciation of self, to the new birth into the kingdom of love. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The wretched creature seemed to suffer acutely under this renunciation. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- But since providential indications demand a renunciation from me, I renounce. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- One by one she had detached herself from the baser possibilities, and she saw that nothing now remained to her but the emptiness of renunciation. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- She entertained no visions of their ever coming into nearer union, and yet she had taken no posture of renunciation. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Reason, judgment, renunciation, all the sane daylight forces, were beaten back in the sharp struggle for self-preservation. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
Typist: Wolfgang