The state of having rejected your religious beliefs or your political party or a cause (often in favor of opposing beliefs or causes)

Usage examples of renunciation.

Not any forensic act of faith in atoning blood, but ingrained piety a modest renunciation before the reality of things is the grand gateway of souls to the blessedness and repose of God.

This is the chalice from which the assembled prelates of Phos drank together in ritual renunciation of Skotos at the great synod not long after the High Temple was built.

Father Henry Garnet, in A Treatise of Christian Renunciation, preached a very different message concerning recusant wives in dispute with Protestant husbands.

Taking the floor in protest, Adams called Sullivan a decoy duck sent to seduce Congress into renunciation of independence.

Besides purification, the holy men of Harappa and the Indus valley practised yoga and renunciation of the world.

And on the 2nd June Casanova, doubtless feeling his helplessness in the matter of money, and the insufficiency of his occasional remittances, and suspicious of Francesca's loyalty, wrote her a letter of renunciation.

This can only be done in two ways, either by proving one's own proposition apodictically, or, if that does not succeed, by trying to discover the causes of that failure, which, if they lie in the necessary limits of our reason, must force every opponent to submit to exactly the same law of renunciation with reference to any claims to dogmatic assertion.

Some of the extremer pacifists, starting out with a complete renunciation of violence, have ended by warmly championing Hitler and even toying with antisemitism.

The Mind of Earth must not fragment but coadunate — grow and flow together in a sublime metaconcert of good­will, a renunciation of selfishness that coerces the Intervention of the Galactic Milieu at long last!

It was not, of course, immediately accepted there were many false starts, renunciations, debunkings, persecutions, and attacks of what seemed massive inertia.

There were many false starts, renunciations, debunkings, persecu-tions, and periods of what seemed massive inertia.

The Republic's permanent renunciation of all claims to San Martin was simply too valuable a bargaining chip to give up until she got at least something in return.

The one look he cast back over his shoulder showed him Zenobia leaning over the window-sill, her arms stretched after him in mute farewell and renunciation.

Her renunciation and suffering were related to and enmeshed with Frodo's : both were parts of a plan for the regeneration of the state of Men.

The same Hermitical state of mind led to her renunciation of made dishes and wines at dinner, until fairly commanded by Mr.