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n. The act or an instance of renouncing: the renunciation of all earthly pleasures.

n. A declaration in which something is renounced.

n. the act of rejecting or renouncing something as invalid

n. the resignation of an ecclesiastical office

n. The act of renouncing.

n. Formal declination to take out letters of administration, or to assume an office, privilege, or right.

n. The act of renouncing.

n. In law, the legal act by which a person abandons a right acquired, but without transferring it to another: applied particularly in reference to an executor or trustee who has been nominated in a will, or other instrument creating a trust, but who, having an option to accept it, declines to do so, and in order to avoid any liability expressly renounces the office. In Scots law the term is also used in reference to an heir who is entitled, if he chooses. to succeed to heritable property, but, from the extent of the encumbrances, prefers to refuse it.

n. In liturgics, that part of the baptismal service in which the candidate, either in person or by his sureties, renounces the world, the flesh, and the devil.

n. Synonyms Abandonment, relinquishment, surrender. See renounce.

n. the act of renouncing; sacrificing or giving up or surrendering (a possession or right or title or privilege etc.)

n. an act (spoken or written) declaring that something is surrendered or disowned

n. rejecting or disowning or disclaiming as invalid

n. the state of having rejected your religious beliefs or your political party or a cause (often in favor of opposing beliefs or causes)

"The longer I live-especially now when I clearly feel the approach of death-the more I feel moved to express what I feel more strongly than anything else, and what in my opinion is of immense importance, namely, what we call the renunciation of all opposition by force, which really simply means the doctrine of the law of love unperverted by sophistries."

rejection   

abandonment    renunciation of a lease    repudiation    abjurement   

renouncement   

relinquishment    recantation    renouncement    disclaimer    abjuration    rejection    disavowment    abandonment    disownment    denial   

Alsatian    Americanization    Appalachian    Balkanization    Christianization    Confederation    Corp.    Croatian    Dalmatian    Desegregation   

self-sacrifice    humility    self-restraint    abstinence    obedience    forbearance    chastity    truthfulness    mortification    abnegation