单词 | renunciative |
释义 | renunciativeadj. 1. Characterized by renunciation. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > relinquishing > [adjective] > characterized by renunciation renunciativea1500 renunciatory1667 a1500 (?a1425) tr. Secreta Secret. (Lamb.) 96 (MED) Þanne he ressayues a stryngthe of vndirstandynge þat ys renunciatyf [L. renunciatiua] of ffygures and semblance, & of temptacions sensibles. 1679 R. Baxter Which is True Church? ii. 72 It is their addition of the Papal Soveraignty over the Universal Church which is denyed by us... And the denyal of their addition is the Renunciative Consequence, and no direct and proper part of our Positive Religion: True Faith is one thing, and the Renunciation of all Errors contrary to it is another thing. 1711 J. Bingham Origines Ecclesiasticæ III. Contents ii Of the Difference between the Renunciative and the Communicative Life. 1750 T. Foxcroft Humilis Confessio 40 How unreasonable do's it look, to suppose, that..he should, in the Renunciative Part of his Declaration, recur to an antiquated Pretension? 1850 E. B. Browning Poems (new ed.) II. 446 To let thee sit..and hear the sighing years Re-sighing on my lips renunciative. 1891 T. Hardy Tess of the D'Urbervilles II. xxv. 55 His creed of determinism was such that it..amounted to a renunciative philosophy which had cousinship with that of Schopenhauer. 1951 Mod. Philol. 49 32/2 The ease with which she refuses Jean is not due to virtue in any renunciative sense but purely to lack of desire for him. 1998 Theol. Stud. (Electronic ed.) 59 163 A renunciative, kenotic ethic best characterizes God's activity. ΘΚΠ society > communication > information > announcing or proclaiming > [adjective] > announcing or proclaiming nunciativea1425 nunciatory1576 renunciative1622 proclamatory1635 denunciatory1726 denouncing1747 announcing1789 annunciating1835 trumpeting1850 1622 J. Mabbe tr. M. Alemán Rogue iii. ii. 242 Bills, and answers, together with other writings, processiue,..renunciatiue, and infinite other the like. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.a1500 |
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