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renouncing, vbl. n.|rɪˈnaʊnsɪŋ|
[f. renounce v. + -ing1.]
The action of the vb., in various senses; renunciation. Also, an instance of this.
c1380Wyclif Sel. Wks. III. 235 How God undirstondes þis renunsynge teches he by lif of Crist. 1494Fabyan Chron. vii. (1516) T t iv/1 The Archebysshop..shewyd vnto them seryously the voluntary renounsynge of the Kyng. 1562–3Reg. Privy Council Scot. I. 230 Befoir the concluding of the caus and renunceing of farther probatioun. 1599Sandys Europæ Spec. (1605) P iv, Those desperate Atheismes, those Spanish renouncings, and Italian blasphemings. 1660Milton Griffith's Serm. Wks. 1851 V. 390 To charge him most audaciously and falsly with the renouncing of his own public Promises. 1724Swift Drapier's Lett. v. Wks. 1755 V. ii. 101 When Sir Charles Sedley was taking the oaths, where several things were to be renounced, he said he loved renouncing. 1897Westm. Gaz. 9 Sept., To this renouncing of the wide sleeve we have been coaxed little by little. |