All 4 Uses of
renounce
in
The Picture of Dorian Gray - 20 chapter version
- It was a novel without a plot, and with only one character, being, indeed, simply a psychological study of a certain young Parisian, who spent his life trying to realise 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 10renunciations = acts of formally rejecting, giving up, or turning away from
- From a moral point of view, I cannot say that I think much of your great renunciation.†
Chpt 19 *renunciation = an act of formally rejecting, giving up, or turning away from
- Don't spoil it by renunciations.†
Chpt 19renunciations = acts of formally rejecting, giving up, or turning away from
- Had there been nothing more in his renunciation than that?†
Chpt 20renunciation = an act of formally rejecting, giving up, or turning away from
Definition:
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)
(as in to give up the power of a monarch, to change belief, behavior, support, or association)