What is "renunciates"

Usage examples of "renunciates".

She spent most of the evening with Camilla and Mother Lauria, and found herself agreeing how very young the new Renunciates appeared.

The Bridge maintained homelike quarters for Darkovan women, mostly Renunciates, required by their work to live in the Terran HQ.

She knew that Magda had been the first to infiltrate the Guild of Renunciates, had even managed to take the Oath, and had quixotically insisted on keeping it, even to serving the full housebound time, which, before the creation of the Bridge Society, had been required in unmitigated form even of Terrans.

When she had outgrown the ties of the Guild-house, she should have done what Andrew Carr had done before her, and allowed the Terrans, perhaps even the Renunciates, to think her dead.

You know that the Renunciates were formed from two societies: the Sisterhood of the Sword, who were a soldier-caste, and the priestesses of Avarra, who were healers.

How good to see you, there is always room here for Renunciates to lodge!

Magda noticed it was the same cheerful, dimpled smile she used when she was instructing the young Renunciates in the Guild-house.

The Renunciates are something of a cultural anomaly, independent females in a very patriarchal society.

I joined the Renunciates because I wanted to be independent, but I am still doing housework.

We had a woman here, a time back, who was wanting to know all about the Renunciates for some book she was going to write.

Margaret wondered what kind of a threat that was, what the Renunciates were, and what they renounced.

Darkovan women are more confined, and except for the Renunciates, rarely travel.

The Renunciates Guild, or Free Amazons, are a group of women who have chosen to remove themselves from the restrictions of Darkovan culture.

People say a great many unkind things about the lives of Renunciates, as if they were not quite civilized.

Liriel set out for Neskaya six days later, in the company of several other Renunciates and a Dry Town merchant.