renouncer
- a word derived from renounce.
Example Sentences
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Although Roy is by no means a Gandhian renouncer of worldly goods, a good percentage of her royalties have funded causes she describes as "edgy", but is reluctant to name.
From The Guardian • Jan. 29, 2011
To the pessimistic mood of India He appeals as one whose companionship makes this life more worth living; for Christ was not a jogi in the Indian sense of a renouncer of the world.
From New Ideas in India During the Nineteenth Century A Study of Social, Political, and Religious Developments by Morrison, John
To pretend to a new birth now would be like a death-bed conversion; it would be like renouncing the joys of life after they have renounced the renouncer.
From The Manxman A Novel - 1895 by Caine, Hall, Sir
He received valuable presents, which he distributed to the poor, who acclaimed him as 'Zahed'—a renouncer of earthly pleasures.
From The River War An Account of the Reconquest of the Sudan by Churchill, Winston
But there seemed an absolute resolution formed to crush this acquaintance, and compel me to appear its wilful renouncer.
From The Diary and Letters of Madame D'Arblay — Volume 3 by Burney, Fanny
