单词 | abjurement |
释义 | abjurementn. In later use chiefly historical. The process of abjuring; abjuration, renunciation. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > relinquishing > [noun] > renunciation renunciation1399 renouncingc1400 disaccustoming1479 renouncementa1513 abjuration?1567 abjuring1567 abdication1571 renounsal1574 abjurement?1594 renounce1774 ?1594 M. Drayton Peirs Gaueston sig. I2v My late abiurement naught preuailed. 1647 J. Hall Poems Pref. sig. A3v Such sinnes as these are veniall in youth; especially if expiated with timely abjurement. 1830 C. Macfarlane Armenians II. ix. 158 At this abjurement of errors..the delight of the seraffs and of all their connexions, knew no bounds. 1841 Christian Remembrancer Feb. 101 Having submitted to the abjurement of his metropolitical rights at his consecration. 1874 Hist., Ess., Orations Sixth Gen. Conf. Evangelical Alliance 117/1 There were six Spaniards who preferred imprisonment to liberty obtained through abjurement of their faith. 1939 Hispanic Rev. 7 171 Her mother Zara was a Moorish slave, born in Granada, whose feigned abjurement of the faith of the Prophet was merely a matter of expediency. 1979 N. N. Barker French Experience in Mexico 1821–1861 i. 7 He forcefully expressed the British displeasure and elicited from Polignac a formal statement of abjurement. 1999 Business India (Nexis) 5 Apr. The basis for Gandhi's moral search..lay in a rather profound logic of ruthless inquiry into what Swaraj meant. For one, he was sure it meant the abjurement of violence. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.?1594 |
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