renunciation
Americannoun
noun
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the act or an instance of renouncing
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a formal declaration renouncing something
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stock exchange the surrender to another of the rights to buy new shares in a rights issue
Other Word Forms
Etymology
Origin of renunciation
1350–1400; Middle English < Latin renūnciātiōn- (stem of renūnciātiō ) proclamation, equivalent to renūnciāt ( us ) (past participle of renūntiāre to renounce ) + -iōn- -ion
Explanation
If you reject something or disown it, you can call this renunciation. Sorry, your renunciation of your membership in the American Association of Retired People will not make you any younger. Use the noun renunciation especially when you mean you have given up your religious or political beliefs or some cause you previously supported. When you drop a political party to become an independent, you mean it to be a renunciation of all the infighting, backstabbing, and finger pointing that have become "politics as usual."
Vocabulary lists containing renunciation
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Example Sentences
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Every state is different but you’ll most likely need to file a Renunciation of Nominated Executor form to the court system in the county in which your parents reside.
From Slate • Nov. 11, 2022
To make it easier to pray at his tomb, the Vatican ordered Carlo’s body to be exhumed last year and reburied at the Shrine of Renunciation at the Church of St. Mary Major in Assisi.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 28, 2020
Think of the Great Masculine Renunciation, the term coined by the psychoanalyst John Carl Flügel to denote a general eschewing of extravagance in male dress at the turn of the 19th century.
From New York Times • Sep. 10, 2014
I enjoyed the word play here, and of all his names, "Sameold Goodold" and "Hankernot Renunciation" appealed.
From The Guardian • Jul. 12, 2011
Here in the dusk I see her face again As then I knew it, ere she fell asleep; Renunciation glorifying pain Of her soul's inmost deep.
From Undertones by Cawein, Madison J.
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