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
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
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
Clothes—ten years old in cut—scissors, razors, hats, shoes, all his discarded attire and belongings, were dragged ruthlessly from their renunciatory rest and strewn about in painful disorder.
From Options by O. Henry
I was afraid of Gerald–that disposition in him to consider too finely, to halt on the brink, that negative, renunciatory way he has settled into.
From Aurora the Magnificent by Gertrude Hall Brownell
