renunciaten.
/rᵻˈnʌnsɪət/, U.S. /riˈnənsiət/, /rəˈnənsiət/ A person who renunciates or gives up something; esp. a religious person who has renounced a secular way of life. Cf. renunciant n.
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1899 G. Jha' tr. Chha'ndogya Upanishad & Sri Sankara's Comm. ii. viii. Comm., in Upanishads IV. 355 Paramahansa—Renunciates, who have renounced all desire for the external world.
1971 Philos. East & West 21 285 McKenzie then points out that when the several orders of friars..arose from the thirteenth century on, the work of religious renunciates spread into the ministry, teaching, and scholarship.
1977 N.Y. Times Mag. 4 Dec. 43/2 ‘I had a Mercedes Benz, a Triumph 500, a Cessna 172 and an MG,’ he told me, with the inverse pride of the renunciate.
1993 Gnosis Winter 49/2 For a long time I was a renunciate, which was pushing away ‘these’ for ‘those’.
2007 Yoga Mag. Oct. 35/1 There has never been any need to be a hermit or ascetic, to live life as a renunciate, to practice clever contorted asans or even to grow dreadlocks!
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, March 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
renunciatev.
/rᵻˈnʌnsɪeɪt/, /rᵻˈnʌnʃɪeɪt/, U.S. /riˈnənsiˌeɪt/, /rəˈnənsiˌeɪt/ΘΚΠ
society > communication > information > announcing or proclaiming > announce or proclaim [verb (transitive)] > announce openly or assert emphatically
to tell the world1555
renunciate1656
1656 T. Blount Glossographia Renunciate, to make relation..; to proclaim or declare openly, to tell what is done.
2. transitive. To renounce, give up (something). Also intransitive.
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the mind > possession > relinquishing > relinquish or give up [verb (transitive)] > renounce
to claim quitc1314
to quit claimc1314
remisea1325
release1379
remit1379
renouncec1400
to put apart1455
discharge1466
to swear out1598
to quit claim to1664
remiss1701
cut1791
renunciate1848
?1715 [see renunciating adj. at Derivatives].
1792 T. Holcroft Road to Ruin iii. i. 53 Nay, Mr. Goldfinch—I—do not—absolutely renunciate—But I—wish [etc.].
1848 Buffalo Med. Jrnl. 4 392 We have the pleasure of announcing another instance in which an apothecary has renunciated all connection with the nostrum trade.
1896 G. B. Shaw Coll. Lett. 16 Nov. (1965) I. 702 Men who..sat in corners seraphically renunciating.
1957 Times 13 Mar. 5/6 It was often put that the party renunciating must ‘evince an intention’ not to go on with the contract.
1989 W. Horwood Duncton Found xxvii. 480 The moles' failure to Atone and renunciate, killed the system.
1998 Hong Kong Standard (Electronic ed.) 27 July The method for renouncing US citizenship is clearly set out in the US nationality legislation... There should be a witness and the person renunciating must sign a Statement of Understanding in triplicate.
Derivatives
reˈnunciating adj. that renounces something.
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?1715 Remarks Preliminary Articles Peace 33 Posterity, I presume, will have a Declaration to the following Effect from this Renunciating Family.
1814 J. West Alicia de Lacy I. 268 Pray fervently to the Queen of Heaven who will enable you to imitate the renunciating spirit of pious Saint Alexis.
1930 Amer. Jrnl. Internat. Law 24 710 The physical conditions and the policy of the Polar States compel this renunciating doctrine.
2005 BBC Monitoring Internat. Rep. (Nexis) 5 Dec. Bharti, who lives the life of a renunciating Hindu nun, was expelled for indiscipline by the party's Central Parliamentary Board.
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