All 4 Uses of
renounce
in
The Picture of Dorian Gray - 13 chapter version
- …being, indeed, simply a psychological study of a certain young Parisian, who spent his life trying to realize in the nineteenth century all the passions and modes of thought that belonged to every century except his own, and to sum up, as it were, in himself the various moods through which the world-spirit had ever passed, loving for their mere artificiality those renunciations that men have unwisely called virtue, as much as those natural rebellions that wise men still call sin.†
Chpt 8
- From a moral point of view I really don't think much of your great renunciation.†
Chpt 13 *
- Don't spoil it by renunciations.†
Chpt 13
- Had there been nothing more in his renunciation than that?†
Chpt 13
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)