All 7 Uses of
renounce
in
The House of Mirth
- From whatever angle he viewed their dawning intimacy, he could not see it as part of her scheme of life; and to be the unforeseen element in a career so accurately planned was stimulating even to a man who had renounced sentimental experiments.†
Chpt 1.6
- Her face brightened at this, but she drew her hand away, not with a gesture of coquetry, but as though renouncing something to which she had no claim.†
Chpt 1.6 *
- Reason, judgment, renunciation, all the sane daylight forces, were beaten back in the sharp struggle for self-preservation.†
Chpt 1.14
- To look on that prone loveliness was to see in it a natural force, to recognize that love and power belong to such as Lily, as renunciation and service are the lot of those they despoil.†
Chpt 1.14
- She had even offered to give up her visit to Lake George, and remain in town with Miss Bart, if the latter would renounce her journey; but Lily could disguise her real distaste for this plan under a sufficiently valid reason.†
Chpt 2.5
- One by one she had detached herself from the baser possibilities, and she saw that nothing now remained to her but the emptiness of renunciation.†
Chpt 2.13
- These were the only traces of luxury, of that clinging to the minute observance of personal seemliness, which showed what her other renunciations must have cost.†
Chpt 2.14
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)