All 15 Uses of
renounce
in
The Fountainhead
- It's not all fighting and renunciation.†
Chpt 1.7 *
- What have I ever renounced?†
Chpt 1.7
- Oh, you'll never renounce anything!†
Chpt 1.7
- But it's what you've renounced by never wanting it.†
Chpt 1.7
- This is the time for every man to renounce the thoughts of his petty little problems, of gain, of comfort, of self-gratification.†
Chpt 1.9
- When consulted on love affairs, Toohey counseled surrender, if it concerned a romance with a charming little pushover, good for a few drunken parties—"let us be modern"; and renunciation, if it concerned a deep, emotional passion—"let us be grownup."†
Chpt 2.9
- That thing—a man can't renounce it—but I want to renounce it—so that it will be yours—so that it will be in your service—only for you.†
Chpt 3.1
- That thing—a man can't renounce it—but I want to renounce it—so that it will be yours—so that it will be in your service—only for you.†
Chpt 3.1
- Under all the complications of verbiage, haven't they all had a single leitmotif: sacrifice, renunciation, self-denial?†
Chpt 4.14
- The city read, chuckling, the statement of Wynand's renunciation.†
Chpt 4.17
- There is a kind of dignity in a renunciation of dignity openly admitted.†
Chpt 4.17
- It had left on all a single mark in common: on lips smiling with malice, on lips loose with renunciation, on lips tight with uncertain dignity—on all—the mark of suffering.†
Chpt 4.18
- This country was not based on selfless service, sacrifice, renunciation or any precept of altruism.†
Chpt 4.18
- A face that held no pain of renunciation, but the stamp of the next step, when even pain is renounced.†
Chpt 4.19
- A face that held no pain of renunciation, but the stamp of the next step, when even pain is renounced.†
Chpt 4.19
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)