All 6 Uses of
renounce
in
The Idiot
- "Then, in another week, she had run away again, and came here to Lebedeff's; and when I found her here, she said to me, 'I'm not going to renounce you altogether, but I wish to put off the wedding a bit longer yet—just as long as I like—for I am still my own mistress; so you may wait, if you like.'†
Chpt 2.3
- …thought; and then there came across him as in a flash the memory of the incidents at the Pavlofsk station, and at the other station in the morning; and the question asked him by Rogojin about THE EYES and Rogojin's cross, that he was even now wearing; and the benediction of Rogojin's mother; and his embrace on the darkened staircase—that last supreme renunciation—and now, to find himself full of this new "idea," staring into shop-windows, and looking round for things—how base he was!†
Chpt 2.5
- Yes, all this must be put straight and above-board, there must be no more passionate renouncements, such as Rogojin's.†
Chpt 2.5
- Now I want nothing; I renounce all my wants; I swore to myself that I would want nothing; let them seek the truth without me!†
Chpt 2.10 *
- "I'll tell you what, my friend," cried Mrs. Epanchin, of a sudden, "here are we all sitting here and imagining we are very clever, and perhaps laughing at the prince, some of us, and meanwhile he has received a letter this very day in which that same claimant renounces his claim, and begs the prince's pardon.†
Chpt 3.1
- But I have renounced the world.†
Chpt 3.10
Definition:
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(renounce) to formally reject, give up, or turn away from
(as in to give up the power of a monarch, to change belief, behavior, support, or association)