Sample Sentences for
renounce
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    Renounce the material world and you surrender it to evil.  (source)
    Renounce = formally reject, give up, or turn away from
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    He would have preferred to renounce everything, throw it all away, die, rather than fail Fermina Daza.  (source)
    renounce = to formally reject, give up, and turn away from
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    Put your hand on this Bible, and say, 'I renounce all private speech and intercourse with Philip Wakem from this time forth.'  (source)
    renounce = to formally give up
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    "They'll make you renounce our ways and customs, darling," he said, trying to grasp the situation.†  (source)
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    So on December 26, when I learned what happened, I renounced the Lord.†  (source)
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    LIBERTY IN ACCEPTANCE; PEACE IN ENCLOSURE; HAPPINESS IN RENUNCIATION —Words carved above the gates at the entrance to the Crypts†  (source)
    standard suffix: The suffix "-tion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in action, education, and observation.
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    Leaders may enhance their informal status by renouncing formal symbols.†  (source)
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    At its height, Comrade Chin walks across the stage with a banner reading: "The Actor Renounces His Decadent Profession!"†  (source)
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    For he that renounceth, or passeth away his Right, giveth not to any other man a Right which he had not before; because there is nothing to which every man had not Right by Nature: but onely standeth out of his way, that he may enjoy his own originall Right, without hindrance from him; not without hindrance from another.†  (source)
    standard suffix: Today, the suffix "-th" is replaced by "-s", so that where they said "She renounceth" in older English, today we say "She renounces."
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    Sometimes I fancy it must be a region of unreasonable sublimities seething with the excitement of their adventurous souls, lighted by the glory of all possible risks and renunciations.†  (source)
    standard suffix: The suffix "-tions", converts a verb into a plural noun that denotes results of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in actions, illustrations, and observations.
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    Though I made no further observation of her at the moment, I may mention here what I did not discover until afterwards, namely, that she was one of a series of protegees whom my aunt had taken into her service expressly to educate in a renouncement of mankind, and who had generally completed their abjuration by marrying the baker.†  (source)
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    At last she sent me away with her soft, slow, renunciatory kiss.†  (source)
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    BEFORE WE PROCEED to the last episode of the life, one more hero-type remains to be mentioned: the saint or ascetic, the world-renouncer.†  (source)
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