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Usage examples of renouncing.

Christians, without renouncing a more sacred duty, could assume the character of soldiers, of magistrates, or of princes.

Aspacuras, who owed his diadem to the choice of Sapor, was obliged to declare, that his regard for his children, who were detained as hostages by the tyrant, was the only consideration which prevented him from openly renouncing the alliance of Persia.

Barbarians, and the security of the Romans: from that day, the Goths, renouncing the precarious condition of strangers and exiles, assumed the character of citizens and masters, claimed an absolute dominion over the possessors of land, and held, in their own right, the northern provinces of the empire, which are bounded by the Danube.

And yet so low are they now reduced, by the injustice of magistrates and the venality of collectors, that many of their members, renouncing their dignity and their country, have taken refuge in distant and obscure exile.

Perhaps the humility of a Christian priest should have rejected an earthly kingdom, which it was not easy for him to govern without renouncing the virtues of his profession.

The tumult was appeased by the disinterested resolution of Omar, who, suddenly renouncing his own pretensions, stretched forth his hand, and declared himself the first subject of the mild and venerable Abubeker.

The daughter of the sultan was bestowed on the caliph Moctadi, with the imperious condition, that, renouncing the society of his wives and concubines, he should forever confine himself to this honorable alliance.

Felix, renouncing the tiara, again withdrew to the devout or delicious hermitage of Ripaille.

Degraded, banished, proscribed, the six brothers, in disguise and danger, wandered over Europe without renouncing the hope of deliverance and revenge.

Oath without first renouncing the safety and protection of the laws specially protecting women.

They will forgive me for renouncing what they think I could never get even if I wished for it.

Millions of men, renouncing their human feelings and reason, had to go from west to east to slay their fellows, just as some centuries previously hordes of men had come from the east to the west, slaying their fellows.

Moreover, at this moment Pierre was supported in his design and prevented from renouncing it by what he had already done in that direction.

They won their concessions at the price of formally renouncing by oath all of the legal protections given to other women.

Comyn Council meeting, when Dyan named Danilo heir to Ardais in reparation for the wrong he had done the boy, Regis swore allegiance to Comyn and showed them his own designated heir, HH 375-77, renouncing his long-cherished dream of going offworld.