renunciationn.

Brit.

/rᵻˌnʌnsɪˈeɪʃn/, U.S.

/rəˌnənsiˈeɪʃ(ə)n/,

/riˌnənsiˈeɪʃ(ə)n/

Forms: Middle English renonciacion, Middle English renountiacion, Middle English 1600s– renunciation, Middle English–1500s renunciacion, 1500s–1600s renuntiation, 1600s renonciation; Scottish pre-1700 renuncation, pre-1700 renunceatione, pre-1700 renunceatioun, pre-1700 renunciacion, pre-1700 renunciacione, pre-1700 renunciacioun, pre-1700 renunciacon, pre-1700 renunciatione, pre-1700 renunciatioun, pre-1700 renunciatioune, pre-1700 renuncyatyowne, pre-1700 renunsacioun, pre-1700 renunsatioun, pre-1700 renunsiation, pre-1700 renunsiatioun, pre-1700 renuntiacion, pre-1700 renuntiatioun, pre-1700 renuntiatioune, pre-1700 renunttiatione, pre-1700 1700s– renunciation.

Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from French. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Etymons: French renonciacion; Latin renuntiātiōn-, renuntiātiō.

Etymology: < Anglo-Norman and Middle French renonciacion, renunciacion, renunciation, etc. (French renonciation ) action of renouncing, giving up, or surrendering a right, title, etc. (1260 in Old French) and its etymon classical Latin renuntiātiōn-, renuntiātiō official report, official return (of elections), declaration of withdrawal or resignation, in post-classical Latin also (in Christian context) action of renouncing the devil, the world, and the flesh (5th cent.) < renuntiāt- , past participial stem of renuntiāre renounce v. + -iō -ion suffix¹. Compare Old Occitan renunciatio (a1460), Catalan renunciació (1272), Spanish renunciación (a1250), Portuguese renunciação (15th cent.), Italian renunziazione (a1348 as renunziagione).

a. The action of renouncing, giving up, or surrendering a possession, right, title, etc.; an instance of this. Also: a document expressing this.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > possession > relinquishing > [noun] > renunciation

renunciation1399

renouncingc1400

disaccustoming1479

renouncementa1513

abjuration?1567

abjuring1567

abdication1571

renounsal1574

abjurement?1594

renounce1774

society > law > legal right > withdrawal or loss of legal rights > [noun] > renunciation or surrender of right or claim

quitclaimancea1325

renunciation1399

surrender1557

quitclaim1611

disclaimer1623

waiver1628

1399 Rolls of Parl.: Henry IV (Electronic ed.) Parl. Oct. 1399 1st Roll §59. m. 17 Uppe the fourme that is contened in the same renunciacioun and cessioun.

1462 in H. Ellis Orig. Lett. Eng. Hist. (1827) 2nd Ser. I. 128 A renountiacion and relese of the ryght and title that the Corowne of England hathe unto the Realme and Crowne of Fraunce.

1512 in M. Livingstone Reg. Secreti Sigilli Regum Scotorum (1908) I. 374/2 The lands of Terane..being in the kingis handis lauchfully be dimissioun and renunciatioun of Agnes Houstoun.

1569 Reg. Privy Council Scotl. II. 36 The said assignatioun, translatioun, renunciatioun and ourgeving.

1579–80 Reg. Privy Council Scotl. III. 256 The renunceatioun of the said reversioun.

c1600 Diurnal of Remarkable Occurrents (1833) 9 Wpoun the Lambes day, the king desyrit fra all his officiaris renunciatioun of thair offices.

1695 Def. Vindic. Deprived Bishops 16 They desired and procured an express renonciation of their Rights.

1775 J. Ferguson Decisions Court of Session 1738–52 443 A tenant having, after expiry of his tack, removed without a renunciation.

1777 Pitt in J. Almon Anecd. III. xliv. 196 A renunciation of our own unjust..claims, must precede even the least attempt to conciliate.

1827 H. Hallam Constit. Hist. Eng. II. xv. 486 The queen's renunciation of her right of succession was invalid in the jurisprudence of his court.

1872 J. Yeats Growth Commerce 244 A compensation being offered to Austria in the renunciation by Spain of all her European dependencies.

1930 Amer. Hist. Rev. 36 151 Formal renunciation of Egypt, of course, was implicit in the accord of April 8, 1904.

1992 Bottom Line Personal 30 July 4/1 A qualified disclaimer—also known as a renunciation—is an irrevocable refusal prepared by an attorney when an heir doesn't want the inheritance.

2005 Church Times 18 Feb. 12/2 Republics (but with their last kings or crown princes still alive) in which no formal act of abdication or renunciation of the throne has ever taken place.

b. The action of giving up or forsaking something naturally attractive; self-denial.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > possession > relinquishing > [noun] > renunciation > of something naturally attractive

renunciation1483

renunciance1837

1483 W. Caxton tr. J. de Voragine Golden Legende f. 320/1 He was hasty in fleynge the world by parfyght renonciacion.

1526 W. Bonde Pylgrimage of Perfection ii. sig. Pi^v After that foloweth the dispisynge & renunciacion or forsakyng of wordely thynges.

a1695 H. Wharton 14 Serm. preach'd Lambeth Chapel (1697) ii. 88 He gave us a most perfect Pattern of Self-denial, generous Contempt of the world, and Renunciation of all carnal Pleasures.

1726 W. Law Pract. Treat. Christian Perfection iii. 81 It is undeniable, that these Instances..of voluntary Self-denial, and Renunciation of all worldly Enjoyments, are as truly Parts of personal Holiness..as any Instances of Charity, Humility, and Love of God.

1834 T. Carlyle Sartor Resartus ii. ix. 69/1 It is only with Renunciation (Entsagen) that Life, properly speaking, can be said to begin.

1860 J. Tyndall Glaciers of Alps i. i. 7 A renunciation of my old and more favourite pursuits.

1876 C. M. Davies Unorthodox London (rev. ed.) 17 Every prophet has his one distinguishing trait; and that of Buddha was renunciation.

1961 J. Ward Imagination of Disaster ii. 47 Isabel's renunciation of escape from Osmond and of happiness with Goodwood is a triumph of her (and James's) idealism; it avows the supreme dignity of the human being.

1991 R. Fuller Stares xv. 113 Her renunciation of cigarettes was recent, for her right first finger was still brown.

a. The action of rejecting or abandoning a belief, habit, etc.; the action of declining further association with a person; repudiation or formal rejection of a person or thing.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > language > statement > refusal > [noun] > rejection or non-acceptance

renunciation1418

rejectinga1425

reprobationa1425

rejectiona1464

abjection?1529

refute1535

abdication1552

abnegation1554

abrenunciation1557

recusancy1563

repudy1575

offcasting?1591

rejectment1599

defiancea1616

canvass1621

non-acceptation1622

repudiation1640

disacceptance1642

non-acceptance1647

disowning1656

discard1663

disownment1806

unacceptance1865

ding1949

negging1996

1418 in R. W. Chambers & M. Daunt Bk. London Eng. (1931) 292 (MED) [Master Henry Ware]..haþ maad renunciacion of alle the Wordes contened in þe said bulles of prouision þat myghte be preiudiciel vnto vs and to oure corowne.

a1500 (c1425) Andrew of Wyntoun Oryg. Cron. Scotl. (Nero) v. l. 3395 He made renunciacion Off baptisyne and Cristyn fay.

1598 R. Hakluyt tr. C. de Jungingen Let. 22 Feb. in Princ. Navigations (new ed.) I. 153 This present renuntiation, reuocation, and retractation of the order and composition aforesayd, notwithstanding.

1635 E. Pagitt Christianographie (1636) i. iii. 158 An Adiuration of the Divell and a Renuntiation or renouncing of him.

1675 R. Baxter Catholick Theol. ii. v. 108 You may read the Synod of Dorts express renunciation of it.

1755 E. Young Centaur i, in Wks. (1757) IV. 113 Vicious practice is sure to produce..an absolute renunciation of all belief.

1790 E. Burke Refl. Revol. in France 26 As solemn a renunciation as could be made of the principles by this society imputed to them.

1855 E. C. Gaskell North & South II. xvi. 216 Frederick had written..a pretty vehement letter, containing his renunciation of England as his country.

1870 R. Anderson Hist. Missions Amer. Board I. vii. 137 One cannot but wonder at the rapid renunciation of even the name of Christianity by the people of Jaffna.

1941 G. G. Scholem Major Trends in Jewish Mysticism viii. 284 The swift rise and the sudden collapse of the Sabbatian movement in 1665 and 1666, from Sabbatai Zevi's proclamation of his messianic mission to his renunciation of Judaism.

1972 A. J. Ayer Russell i. 33 The only hope for peace lay in the renunciation of atomic weapons.

2005 Time Out N.Y. 17 Nov. 68/3 Kripalu yoga is spiritually oriented without requiring renunciation of your own faith.

b. Christian Church. The action of renouncing the devil, the world, and the flesh, at baptism; an instance of this.

ΘΚΠ

society > faith > worship > sacrament > baptism > [noun] > renunciation of world at

renunciation1609

1609 R. Parsons Quiet Reckoning iii. 191 Other traditions allowed by him, though not written in the Scriptures..as for example, that of renunciation accustomed to be made in the Church before baptisme.

1706 tr. L. E. Du Pin New Eccl. Hist. 16th Cent. II. v. 47 Exorcism and Insufflation, as well as the Renunciation, and the Profession of Faith, and the other Ceremonies of Baptism.

1875 W. Smith & S. 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.

1907 Catholic Encycl. II. 276/1 Where there was a baptistery the renunciations were made in the..vestibule or ante-room.

1946 Church Hist. 15 293 The acceptance of Christ in the Creed meant also the rejection of the devil. That rejection was not merely liturgical in the act of renunciation at baptism.

2005 Dumbarton Oaks Papers 59 53 The renunciations uttered by baptismal candidates on the verge of their full initiation.

†3. The action of bringing news back again. Obsolete. rare.Apparently only attested in dictionaries or glossaries.

ΚΠ

1658 E. Phillips New World Eng. Words Renunciation, a bringing word back again.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2009; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	renunciation
释义	renunciationn. Brit. /rᵻˌnʌnsɪˈeɪʃn/, U.S. /rəˌnənsiˈeɪʃ(ə)n/, /riˌnənsiˈeɪʃ(ə)n/ Forms: Middle English renonciacion, Middle English renountiacion, Middle English 1600s– renunciation, Middle English–1500s renunciacion, 1500s–1600s renuntiation, 1600s renonciation; Scottish pre-1700 renuncation, pre-1700 renunceatione, pre-1700 renunceatioun, pre-1700 renunciacion, pre-1700 renunciacione, pre-1700 renunciacioun, pre-1700 renunciacon, pre-1700 renunciatione, pre-1700 renunciatioun, pre-1700 renunciatioune, pre-1700 renuncyatyowne, pre-1700 renunsacioun, pre-1700 renunsatioun, pre-1700 renunsiation, pre-1700 renunsiatioun, pre-1700 renuntiacion, pre-1700 renuntiatioun, pre-1700 renuntiatioune, pre-1700 renunttiatione, pre-1700 1700s– renunciation. Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from French. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Etymons: French renonciacion; Latin renuntiātiōn-, renuntiātiō. Etymology: < Anglo-Norman and Middle French renonciacion, renunciacion, renunciation, etc. (French renonciation ) action of renouncing, giving up, or surrendering a right, title, etc. (1260 in Old French) and its etymon classical Latin renuntiātiōn-, renuntiātiō official report, official return (of elections), declaration of withdrawal or resignation, in post-classical Latin also (in Christian context) action of renouncing the devil, the world, and the flesh (5th cent.) < renuntiāt- , past participial stem of renuntiāre renounce v. + -iō -ion suffix¹. Compare Old Occitan renunciatio (a1460), Catalan renunciació (1272), Spanish renunciación (a1250), Portuguese renunciação (15th cent.), Italian renunziazione (a1348 as renunziagione). 1. a. The action of renouncing, giving up, or surrendering a possession, right, title, etc.; an instance of this. Also: a document expressing this. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > relinquishing > [noun] > renunciation renunciation1399 renouncingc1400 disaccustoming1479 renouncementa1513 abjuration?1567 abjuring1567 abdication1571 renounsal1574 abjurement?1594 renounce1774 society > law > legal right > withdrawal or loss of legal rights > [noun] > renunciation or surrender of right or claim quitclaimancea1325 renunciation1399 surrender1557 quitclaim1611 disclaimer1623 waiver1628 1399 Rolls of Parl.: Henry IV (Electronic ed.) Parl. Oct. 1399 1st Roll §59. m. 17 Uppe the fourme that is contened in the same renunciacioun and cessioun. 1462 in H. Ellis Orig. Lett. Eng. Hist. (1827) 2nd Ser. I. 128 A renountiacion and relese of the ryght and title that the Corowne of England hathe unto the Realme and Crowne of Fraunce. 1512 in M. Livingstone Reg. Secreti Sigilli Regum Scotorum (1908) I. 374/2 The lands of Terane..being in the kingis handis lauchfully be dimissioun and renunciatioun of Agnes Houstoun. 1569 Reg. Privy Council Scotl. II. 36 The said assignatioun, translatioun, renunciatioun and ourgeving. 1579–80 Reg. Privy Council Scotl. III. 256 The renunceatioun of the said reversioun. c1600 Diurnal of Remarkable Occurrents (1833) 9 Wpoun the Lambes day, the king desyrit fra all his officiaris renunciatioun of thair offices. 1695 Def. Vindic. Deprived Bishops 16 They desired and procured an express renonciation of their Rights. 1775 J. Ferguson Decisions Court of Session 1738–52 443 A tenant having, after expiry of his tack, removed without a renunciation. 1777 Pitt in J. Almon Anecd. III. xliv. 196 A renunciation of our own unjust..claims, must precede even the least attempt to conciliate. 1827 H. Hallam Constit. Hist. Eng. II. xv. 486 The queen's renunciation of her right of succession was invalid in the jurisprudence of his court. 1872 J. Yeats Growth Commerce 244 A compensation being offered to Austria in the renunciation by Spain of all her European dependencies. 1930 Amer. Hist. Rev. 36 151 Formal renunciation of Egypt, of course, was implicit in the accord of April 8, 1904. 1992 Bottom Line Personal 30 July 4/1 A qualified disclaimer—also known as a renunciation—is an irrevocable refusal prepared by an attorney when an heir doesn't want the inheritance. 2005 Church Times 18 Feb. 12/2 Republics (but with their last kings or crown princes still alive) in which no formal act of abdication or renunciation of the throne has ever taken place. b. The action of giving up or forsaking something naturally attractive; self-denial. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > relinquishing > [noun] > renunciation > of something naturally attractive renunciation1483 renunciance1837 1483 W. Caxton tr. J. de Voragine Golden Legende f. 320/1 He was hasty in fleynge the world by parfyght renonciacion. 1526 W. Bonde Pylgrimage of Perfection ii. sig. Pi^v After that foloweth the dispisynge & renunciacion or forsakyng of wordely thynges. a1695 H. Wharton 14 Serm. preach'd Lambeth Chapel (1697) ii. 88 He gave us a most perfect Pattern of Self-denial, generous Contempt of the world, and Renunciation of all carnal Pleasures. 1726 W. Law Pract. Treat. Christian Perfection iii. 81 It is undeniable, that these Instances..of voluntary Self-denial, and Renunciation of all worldly Enjoyments, are as truly Parts of personal Holiness..as any Instances of Charity, Humility, and Love of God. 1834 T. Carlyle Sartor Resartus ii. ix. 69/1 It is only with Renunciation (Entsagen) that Life, properly speaking, can be said to begin. 1860 J. Tyndall Glaciers of Alps i. i. 7 A renunciation of my old and more favourite pursuits. 1876 C. M. Davies Unorthodox London (rev. ed.) 17 Every prophet has his one distinguishing trait; and that of Buddha was renunciation. 1961 J. Ward Imagination of Disaster ii. 47 Isabel's renunciation of escape from Osmond and of happiness with Goodwood is a triumph of her (and James's) idealism; it avows the supreme dignity of the human being. 1991 R. Fuller Stares xv. 113 Her renunciation of cigarettes was recent, for her right first finger was still brown. 2. a. The action of rejecting or abandoning a belief, habit, etc.; the action of declining further association with a person; repudiation or formal rejection of a person or thing. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > statement > refusal > [noun] > rejection or non-acceptance renunciation1418 rejectinga1425 reprobationa1425 rejectiona1464 abjection?1529 refute1535 abdication1552 abnegation1554 abrenunciation1557 recusancy1563 repudy1575 offcasting?1591 rejectment1599 defiancea1616 canvass1621 non-acceptation1622 repudiation1640 disacceptance1642 non-acceptance1647 disowning1656 discard1663 disownment1806 unacceptance1865 ding1949 negging1996 1418 in R. W. Chambers & M. Daunt Bk. London Eng. (1931) 292 (MED) [Master Henry Ware]..haþ maad renunciacion of alle the Wordes contened in þe said bulles of prouision þat myghte be preiudiciel vnto vs and to oure corowne. a1500 (c1425) Andrew of Wyntoun Oryg. Cron. Scotl. (Nero) v. l. 3395 He made renunciacion Off baptisyne and Cristyn fay. 1598 R. Hakluyt tr. C. de Jungingen Let. 22 Feb. in Princ. Navigations (new ed.) I. 153 This present renuntiation, reuocation, and retractation of the order and composition aforesayd, notwithstanding. 1635 E. Pagitt Christianographie (1636) i. iii. 158 An Adiuration of the Divell and a Renuntiation or renouncing of him. 1675 R. Baxter Catholick Theol. ii. v. 108 You may read the Synod of Dorts express renunciation of it. 1755 E. Young Centaur i, in Wks. (1757) IV. 113 Vicious practice is sure to produce..an absolute renunciation of all belief. 1790 E. Burke Refl. Revol. in France 26 As solemn a renunciation as could be made of the principles by this society imputed to them. View more context for this quotation 1855 E. C. Gaskell North & South II. xvi. 216 Frederick had written..a pretty vehement letter, containing his renunciation of England as his country. 1870 R. Anderson Hist. Missions Amer. Board I. vii. 137 One cannot but wonder at the rapid renunciation of even the name of Christianity by the people of Jaffna. 1941 G. G. Scholem Major Trends in Jewish Mysticism viii. 284 The swift rise and the sudden collapse of the Sabbatian movement in 1665 and 1666, from Sabbatai Zevi's proclamation of his messianic mission to his renunciation of Judaism. 1972 A. J. Ayer Russell i. 33 The only hope for peace lay in the renunciation of atomic weapons. 2005 Time Out N.Y. 17 Nov. 68/3 Kripalu yoga is spiritually oriented without requiring renunciation of your own faith. b. Christian Church. The action of renouncing the devil, the world, and the flesh, at baptism; an instance of this. ΘΚΠ society > faith > worship > sacrament > baptism > [noun] > renunciation of world at renunciation1609 1609 R. Parsons Quiet Reckoning iii. 191 Other traditions allowed by him, though not written in the Scriptures..as for example, that of renunciation accustomed to be made in the Church before baptisme. 1706 tr. L. E. Du Pin New Eccl. Hist. 16th Cent. II. v. 47 Exorcism and Insufflation, as well as the Renunciation, and the Profession of Faith, and the other Ceremonies of Baptism. 1875 W. Smith & S. 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. 1907 Catholic Encycl. II. 276/1 Where there was a baptistery the renunciations were made in the..vestibule or ante-room. 1946 Church Hist. 15 293 The acceptance of Christ in the Creed meant also the rejection of the devil. That rejection was not merely liturgical in the act of renunciation at baptism. 2005 Dumbarton Oaks Papers 59 53 The renunciations uttered by baptismal candidates on the verge of their full initiation. †3. The action of bringing news back again. Obsolete. rare.Apparently only attested in dictionaries or glossaries. ΚΠ 1658 E. Phillips New World Eng. Words Renunciation, a bringing word back again. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2009; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.1399
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