Renouncing can be categorized as a verb.
Verb |
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| renounce - cast off; "She renounced her husband"; "The parents repudiated their son" | ||
| renounce - give up, such as power, as of monarchs and emperors, or duties and obligations; "The King abdicated when he married a divorcee" | ||
| renounce - turn away from; give up; "I am foreswearing women forever" | ||
| renounce - leave (a job, post, or position) voluntarily; "She vacated the position when she got pregnant"; "The chairman resigned when he was found to have misappropriated funds" |
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| 1. | verb | Joan of Arc refused to renounce her belief that the voice she heard was from God and none other. | |
| 2. | verb | I do plainly and ingenuously confess that I am guilty of corruption, and do renounce all defense. I beseech your Lordships to be merciful to a broken reed. | |
| 3. | verb | Everybody knows the line “The boy didn't crack under interrogation”, but nowadays many people don’t know the continuation: it is a verse about a boy who died, having refused to renounce his Komsomol membership. | |
| 4. | verb | Instead of being esteemed for these discoveries, he was sentenced to renounce them, or the opinions resulting from them, as a damnable heresy. | |
| 5. | verb | She wanted to renounce her U.S. citizenship. | |
| 6. | verb | Experience is a revelation in the light of which we renounce our errors of youth for those of age. | |
| 7. | verb | I will never wed man without the consent of my parents, yet neither force nor persuasion shall dispose of my hand till you renounce the right I have given you to it. | |
| 8. | verb | I renounce everything as long as I can be with you. | |
| 9. | verb | In Nagasaki Sunday, Pope Francis called on political leaders to renounce nuclear weapons and abandon the arms race. | |
| 10. | verb | Between the 15th and the 17th century, thousands of Spanish Muslims and Jews were forced to renounce their religions. | |
| 11. | verb | Does anybody amongst those who embrace his religion become displeased and renounce the religion afterwards? | |
| 12. | verb | Tom wants to renounce his citizenship. | |
| 13. | verb | How difficult is it to renounce your citizenship? |
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| Joan of Arc refused to renounce her belief that the voice she heard was from God and none other. | |
| I do plainly and ingenuously confess that I am guilty of corruption, and do renounce all defense. I beseech your Lordships to be merciful to a broken reed. | |
| Everybody knows the line “The boy didn't crack under interrogation”, but nowadays many people don’t know the continuation: it is a verse about a boy who died, having refused to renounce his Komsomol membership. | |
| Instead of being esteemed for these discoveries, he was sentenced to renounce them, or the opinions resulting from them, as a damnable heresy. | |
| She wanted to renounce her U.S. citizenship. | |
| Experience is a revelation in the light of which we renounce our errors of youth for those of age. | |
| I will never wed man without the consent of my parents, yet neither force nor persuasion shall dispose of my hand till you renounce the right I have given you to it. | |
| I renounce everything as long as I can be with you. | |
| In Nagasaki Sunday, Pope Francis called on political leaders to renounce nuclear weapons and abandon the arms race. | |
| Between the 15th and the 17th century, thousands of Spanish Muslims and Jews were forced to renounce their religions. | |
| Does anybody amongst those who embrace his religion become displeased and renounce the religion afterwards? | |
| Tom wants to renounce his citizenship. | |
| How difficult is it to renounce your citizenship? | |