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renouncement|rɪˈnaʊnsmənt|
[a. F. renoncement (15th c.): see renounce v. and -ment.]
The act of renouncing; an instance of this, a renunciation. † Const. to (cf. renounce v. 6 a).
1494Fabyan Chron. vii. 547 All though he had and myght..haue declared his renouncement by the redynge of an other meane persone. 1597J. King On Jonas (1618) 387 Against sinners past grace, you shall often find renouncements vnto them. 1603Shakes. Meas. for M. i. v. 34, I hold you as a thing en-skied, and sainted, By your renouncement. 1640Yorke Union Hon. 185 The renouncement of the Titles to the Kingdome of Castile and Leon. 1818Bentham Ch. Eng., Catech. Exam. 9 In what condition is he, other than that which he would have been in, had no such renouncement been made? 1865M. Arnold Ess. Crit. iv. (1875) 166 The doctrine..of the superiority of renouncement to activity. |