renunciation
English
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Noun
renunciation (countable and uncountable, plural renunciations)
- the act of rejecting or renouncing something as invalid
- The President's renunciation of the treaty has upset Congress.
- The life of the spirit demands readiness for renunciation when the occasion arises...
- the resignation of an ecclesiastical office
- The bishop's renunciation was on account of his ill health.
- (law) The act by which a person abandons a right acquired, but without transferring it to another.
- (Christianity) In the Anglican baptismal service, the part in which the candidate in person or by his sureties renounces the Devil and all his works.
Related terms
- renouncement
Translations
the act of rejecting or renouncing something as invalid
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the resignation of an ecclesiastical office
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the act by which a person abandons a right acquired, but without transferring it to another
in the Anglican baptismal service, the part in which the candidate in person or by his sureties renounces the Devil and all his works
See also
- abjurement
- repudiation
Further reading
- renunciation in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- renunciation in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.