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abjuration

NOUN
  1. a disavowal or taking back of a previous assertion

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  • The solemn abjuration which is now proposed in the name of Neo-conservatism resembles a charge of dynamite. The Contemporary Review, January 1883 Vol 43, No. 1
  • God, his father and our father, but who, without our elder brother to do it first, would never have chosen that self-abjuration which is life, never have become alive like him. Unspoken Sermons Series I., II., and II.
  • All my life is singing a song to me: Gets means lost and abjuration sometimes means regain.
  • A convert, whose baptism is considered valid, or who, at most, on his reception into the Church is rebaptized conditionally, is required to make a profession of faith, which contains an abjuration of heresy. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize
  • He was condemned in 1595 ‘on grave suspicion of heresy’ and forced to make a formal public abjuration.
  • The dramatic crisis stems from Galileo's enforced abjuration in 1633 of his belief in a heliocentric universe.
  • In some cases the abjuration was the only ceremony required; in others abjuration was followed by the imposition of hands or by unction, or both by the laying on of hands and by unction. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize
  • Art is, after all, both physical and ideological, while spirituality is conventionally thought to be the abjuration of the physical and ideological. G. Roger Denson: In Taipei and Hong Kong, Emily Cheng Bridges Science and Faith
  • How can I break away from all these tangles and let abjuration bury the debris.
  • The Inquisition had accepted Cardano's private abjuration, extracting a promise from him never to teach or publish in the Papal States again.
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