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Abjuration

Abjuration \Ab`ju*ra"tion\, n. [L. abjuratio: cf. F. abjuration.]

  1. The act of abjuring or forswearing; a renunciation upon oath; as, abjuration of the realm, a sworn banishment, an oath taken to leave the country and never to return.

  2. A solemn recantation or renunciation; as, an abjuration of heresy.

    Oath of abjuration, an oath asserting the right of the present royal family to the crown of England, and expressly abjuring allegiance to the descendants of the Pretender.
    --Brande & C.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
abjuration

mid-15c., from Latin abjurationem (nominative abjuratio) "a denying on oath," noun of action from past participle stem of abjurare (see abjure).

Wiktionary
abjuration

n. 1 A solemn recantation or renunciation on oath; as, an '''abjuration''' of heresy. (First attested around 1350 to 1470.)(R:SOED5: page=5) 2 A repudiation on oath of a religious or political principle. (Mid 17th century.) 3 The act of abjure.

WordNet
abjuration

n. a disavowal or taking back of a previous assertion [syn: retraction, recantation]

Wikipedia
Abjuration

Abjuration is the solemn repudiation, abandonment, or renunciation by or upon oath, often the renunciation of citizenship or some other right or privilege. The term comes from the Latin abjurare, "to forswear".

Usage examples of "abjuration".

Guillaume Erard unfolded a double sheet of paper, and read Jeanne the form of abjuration, written down according to the opinion of the masters.

At any rate she had a jesting air, and the bystanders noticed that she pronounced the words of her abjuration with a smile.

She repented of her abjuration, as of the greatest sin she had ever committed.

Whatsoever abjuration I have been forced to make, I never did anything against God and religion.

Christian prisoners, who were offered the choice of abjuration or death.

Holy Tribunal presented Galileo its draft text of an abjuration for him to speak aloud.

Now that the words were out and there was no abjuration possible, she felt as if her bones were made of sand.

Judge must sentence her to an abjuration of all heresy, on pain of the punishment for backsliders, together with the perpetual penance, in the following manner.

The preparations for the abjuration will be the same as were explained in the fourth and fifth methods of concluding a process on behalf of the faith.

I should hereafter act in contravention of this abjuration, I here and now bind and oblige myself to suffer the due punishments for backsliders, however sever they may be.

Notary take care to set it down that the said abjuration was made by one gravely suspected of heresy, so that if she should be proved to have relapsed, she should then be judged accordingly and delivered up to the secular Court.

But it must be understood that this refers to one who had made her abjuration as one manifestly taken in heresy, or as one strongly suspected of heresy, and not to one who has so done as being under only a light suspicion.

And although, as has been said, a person who is found to be suspected in this way is not to be branded as a heretic, yet he must undergo a canonical purgation, or he must be caused to pronounce a solemn abjuration as in the case of one convicted of a slight heresy.

He, therefore, who is known to have lapsed into heresy before his abjuration, if after his abjuration he receives heretics, visits them, gives or sends them presents or gifts, or shows favour to them, etc.

For if invocations, conjurations, fumigations and adorations are used, then an open pact is formed with the devil, even if there has been no surrender of body and soul together with explicit abjuration of the Faith either wholly or in part.