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UK
/ɹɪnˌʌnsɪˈeɪʃən/
]
[ US /ɹɪˌnənsiˈeɪʃən/ ]
[ US /ɹɪˌnənsiˈeɪʃən/ ]
NOUN
- the act of renouncing; sacrificing or giving up or surrendering (a possession or right or title or privilege etc.)
- the state of having rejected your religious beliefs or your political party or a cause (often in favor of opposing beliefs or causes)
- an act (spoken or written) declaring that something is surrendered or disowned
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rejecting or disowning or disclaiming as invalid
Congressional repudiation of the treaty that the President had negotiated
How To Use renunciation In A Sentence
- Few of them understood that the renunciation of self is its own reward.
- He's doing an act of penance, and in the Hindu religion it's a renunciation.
- The film is essentially a myth of power, love, and renunciation, expressed in a dramatic conflict fought out between gods, giants, humans, dwarfs, and other beings.
- You may be quick to add that something else must go with this renunciation of failure, and of course you are right.
- Even today, Heloise has the ability to shock in her unrepentant rejection of social mores, renunciation of morality, and belief in the primacy of sexual and spiritual love and its integration with her religion.
- An additional two acts involve a citizen's formal and explicit renunciation of citizenship.
- The face was less stern than she remembered it; it had yet some of the bloom and bonniness of his boyhood; renunciation had not written its deeper meaning in lines about the lips and eyes. Mary Gray
- The balancing act between self-loathing and self-assertion got her through the wild days and has landed her on her present plane of serene renunciation.
- When lords were in residence, they were often compelled to make formal renunciations of their rights.
- It was the supreme anthem of renunciation, of scorn, of derision at the pretensions of the ungifted and the insensitive.
