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renunciation|rɪnʌnsɪˈeɪʃən|
Also 5 -nountiacioun, 6 -nunceatioun, 6–7 -nuntiation, 7 -nonciation.
[ad. L. renunciātiōn-em, n. of action f. renunciāre to renounce. Cf. F. renonciation (13th c.).]
1. The action of renouncing, giving up, or surrendering (a possession, right, title, etc.); an instance of this; a document expressing this.
1399Rolls of Parlt. III. 424/1 Uppe the fourme that is contened in the same Renunciation and Cession. 1462Edw. IV. in Ellis Orig. Lett. Ser. ii. I. 128 A renountiacioun and relese of the ryght and title that the Corowne of England hathe. 1569Reg. Privy Council Scot. II. 36 The said assignatioun, translatioun, renunciatioun and ourgeving. 1579–80Ibid. III. 256 The renunceatioun of the said reversioun. 1695Def. Vind. Deprived Bps. 16 They desired and procured an express renonciation of their Rights. 1777Pitt in Almon Anecd. III. xliv. 196 A renunciation of our own unjust..claims, must precede even the least attempt to conciliate. 1827Hallam Const. Hist. xv. (1876) III. 138 The queen's renunciation of her right of succession was invalid in the jurisprudence of his court. 1872Yeats Growth Comm. 244 A compensation being offered to Austria in the renunciation by Spain of all her European dependencies.
b. The action of giving up or resigning something naturally attractive; self-resignation.
1526Pilgr. Perf. (W. de W. 1531) 56 After that foloweth the despisynge & renunciacyon or forsakynge of worldly thynges. 1831Carlyle Sart. Res. ii. ix, It is only with Renunciation (Entsagen) that Life, properly speaking, can be said to begin. 1860Tyndall Glac. i. i. 7 A renunciation of my old and more favourite pursuits. 1876C. M. Davies Unorth. Lond. 17 Every prophet has his one distinguishing trait; and that of Buddha was renunciation.
2. The action of rejecting, disowning, or disclaiming; repudiation, formal rejection.
1599Hakluyt Voy. I. 153 This present renuntiation, reuocation, and retractation of the order and composition aforesayd, notwithstanding. 1635E. Pagitt Christianogr. i. iii. (1636) 158 An Adiuration of the Divell and a Renuntiation or renouncing of him. 1675Baxter Cath. Theol. ii. v. 108 You may read the Synod of Dorts express renunciation of it. 1755Young Centaur i. Wks. 1757 IV. 113 Vicious practice is sure to produce..an absolute renunciation of all belief. 1790Burke Fr. Rev. 26 As solemn a renunciation as could be made of the principles by this society imputed to them. 1870Anderson Missions Amer. Bd. I. vii. 137 One cannot but wonder at the rapid renunciation of even the name of Christianity by the people of Jaffna.
b. spec. The action of renouncing the devil, the world, and the flesh, at baptism.
1875Smith & Cheetham Dict. Christian Antiq. I. 160/1 The mode of making the Renunciations, and the words employed, are very fully described in the treatise De Sacramentis, attributed to St. Ambrose.
†3. ‘A bringing word back again’ (Phillips 1658). Obs. rare—0. |