abjuration
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Etymology
Origin of abjuration
1505–15; < Medieval Latin abjūrātiōn- (stem of abjūrātiō ); see abjure, -ate 1, -ion
Explanation
When you've given up your old ideas about something, or retracted a statement you made earlier, you can call it abjuration. Your conservative uncle might be frustrated at the abjuration of your former political opinions, especially if you become a progressive Democrat. Many people experience an abjuration of their religious beliefs, renouncing one faith for another or dropping religion from their lives altogether. When you abjure something, you give it up or renounce it. The Latin root is abiurare, "deny on oath."
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From his Catharan bishop he received absolution for his oath of abjuration, and was received back into the sect.
From A History of The Inquisition of The Middle Ages; volume II by Henry Charles Lea
It did not, of course, contain the abjuration of Episcopal Church-government.
From Sir Thomas Urquhart of Cromartie, Knight by John Willcock
As early as 1184 the Verona decree of Lucius III. provides that those who, after abjuration, relapse into the abjured heresy shall be delivered to the secular courts, without even the opportunity of being heard.
From A History of The Inquisition of The Middle Ages; volume I by Henry Charles Lea
After abjuration, he was duly absolved and condemned to degradation from holy orders and imprisonment for life, in chains and on bread and water, in the inquisitorial prison of Carcassonne.
From A History of The Inquisition of The Middle Ages; volume II by Henry Charles Lea
This was not a strictly formal abjuration such as was customarily required of prisoners of the Inquisition, yet it might have sufficed.
From A History of The Inquisition of The Middle Ages; volume II by Henry Charles Lea
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