Crossword clues for renouncement
renouncement
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Renouncement \Re*nounce"ment\ (-ment), n. [Cf. F. renoncement.]
The act of disclaiming or rejecting; renunciation.
--Shak.
Wiktionary
n. The act of renounce.
WordNet
n. an act (spoken or written) declaring that something is surrendered or disowned [syn: renunciation]
Usage examples of "renouncement".
Though I made no further observation of her at the moment, I may mention here what I did not discover until afterwards, namely, that she was one of a series of protegees whom my aunt had taken into her service expressly to educate in a renouncement of mankind, and who had generally completed their abjuration by marrying the baker.
Micawber, with an intense satisfaction in their renouncement, 'we abandon.
He should have been instantly suspicious, he told himself, of her airy renouncement of interest in him.
The DEA, after Nahas' 1983 waffling renouncement, consciously and criminally continues to use his studies to polarize ignorant judges, politicians, press, and parent groups, who are unaware of Nahas' denouncement.
Our friend couldn't show him the right things for fear of provoking some total renouncement, and was tempted even to show him the wrong in order to make him differ with triumph.
What he would not permit this office to consist of was yet to be settled: there was a queer relief, at all events — I mean for myself in especial — in the renouncement of one pretension.