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  • renounce it as plain villainy  (source)
    renounce = reject
  • Renounce the material world and you surrender it to evil.  (source)
    Renounce = formally reject, give up, or turn away from
  • 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)
    renounce = formally reject, give up, or turn away from
  • So on December 26, when I learned what happened, I renounced the Lord.†  (source)
    renounced = formally rejected, gave up, or turned away from
  • LIBERTY IN ACCEPTANCE; PEACE IN ENCLOSURE; HAPPINESS IN RENUNCIATION —Words carved above the gates at the entrance to the Crypts†  (source)
    RENUNCIATION = an act of formally rejecting, giving up, or turning away from
    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.
  • Leaders may enhance their informal status by renouncing formal symbols.†  (source)
    renouncing = formally rejecting, giving up, or turning away from
  • Estragon tries to speak, renounces, limps to his place, sits down and begins to take off his boots†  (source)
    renounces = formally rejects, gives up, or turns away from
  • 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)
    renunciations = acts of formally rejecting, giving up, or turning away from
    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.
  • All therefore that can be done between two men not subject to Civill Power, is to put one another to swear by the God he feareth: Which Swearing or OATH, is a Forme Of Speech, Added To A Promise; By Which He That Promiseth, Signifieth, That Unlesse He Performe, He Renounceth The Mercy Of His God, Or Calleth To Him For Vengeance On Himselfe.†  (source)
    Renounceth = formally rejects, gives up, or turns away from
    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."
  • He spake, and the well-greaved Achaians rejoiced that the great-hearted son of Peleus had made renouncement of his wrath.†  (source)
  • At last she sent me away with her soft, slow, renunciatory kiss.†  (source)
  • 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)
    renouncer = someone who formally rejects, gives up, or turns away from
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