renunciation
noun
an act or instance of relinquishing, abandoning, repudiating, or sacrificing something, as a right, title, person, or ambition.
renunciatory
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a word derived from
renunciation.
Example Sentences
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Discussing the renunciatory philosophy of the Stoics and Henry David Thoreau, he discerns “a strategy of avoidance, especially in moments when society feels chaotic or catastrophic.”
From New York Times ● Jan. 21, 2020
But the renunciatory end takes forever to reach in a prosy, flat, humorless libretto that, if often social-minded in intention, is simple-minded in effect.
From Time Magazine Archive
Last week, 'Chicago's Bishop Charles Palmerston Anderson and Lexington's Rector Charles Stewart Hale joined in praising him for a renunciatory act.
From Time Magazine Archive
Martie treasured his letter with burning, secret pride, and with perhaps a faint, renunciatory pang.
From Martie, the Unconquered by Kathleen Thompson Norris
Virginia Harding signed a new renunciatory clause, but it bore only on treasure discovered by Mr. Tubbs.
From Spanish Doubloons by Camilla Kenyon
