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a. (context rare English) Of, pertaining to, or being a #Noun. n. One who has renounced.
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Renunciate refers to someone who has renounced lay life, generally to pursue ordination or monastic life. The term is used in a number of religions:
Catholicism:
- Novice
- Postulant
Buddhism:
- Bhikkhu
- Bhikkhuni
Hindu:
- Sannyasa
- Sadhu
Jainism
- Jain monasticism
To turn away from.
Usage examples of "renunciate".
Amazon training which made a trained Renunciate almost impossible to dominate.
Is it a secret, or can you tell me what a Renunciate, a Free Amazon, swears?
She was a grown woman, a Renunciate, she should not expect to hide behind Cholayna or even behind Piedro.
She had begun to think of this time among the Terrans as an adventure, something to relate with pride to the young Renunciate novices when she was old and housebound.
Felicia had to give up her son, since no male may live in a Renunciate house after he is five.
Rafaella say, or Camilla, when she appeared in the Guild House with long hair instead of the distinctive Renunciate cut which proclaimed her independence of any man?
I do not feel it is right that a Renunciate should renounce men and their world and their property, and continue to lie with men, to love them, to bear them children for whom we must take these wretched compromises!
Surely he could see that she was a Renunciate, that she had among other things renounced what status she might ever have had in Comyn.
Luxuries like these might have been hers all the time if she had chosen to remain with Comyn rather than honoring her Renunciate oath, and why was she thinking of that now?
Cloris and Janetta had claimed that any Renunciate who had love affairs with men was a traitor to her Renunciate Oath.
Magda too, but she supposed Camilla, who had been a Renunciate for many years, had managed somehow to make the distinction between men who accepted her as one of themselves and those who treated her as a woman to be cajoled.
Midsummer, custom freed the Renunciate novices for the day itself, and Magda came down to breakfast to hear the women discussing their plans for the holiday.
As much as the Renunciate Oath meant to her, she was in a sense sworn here too.
I wish we were still in the ancient days when no Renunciate might lie with a man, or her sisters would cast her out!
I am sure she has told you that one of the first laws of a Renunciate is that it is better to avoid a situation causing trouble than to get out of it once it has happened.