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Definition of Renounced
1. renounce [v] - See also: renounce
Lexicographical Neighbors of Renounced
Literary usage of Renounced
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. New Englander and Yale Review by Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight (1892)
"UNIVERSALISM EXAMINED, renounced, AND EXPOSED.« " THERE is joy in heaven over
one sinner that repenteth." There is joy likewise among the redeemed on earth ..."
2. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"... who some years before his death renounced the world to lead an eremitical life
near a country church which he had built. Cadoc, who was his oldest son, ..."
3. The United States of America: A Study in International Organization by James Brown Scott (1920)
"... upon the Congress, renounce the exercise of some of the powers inherent in
sovereignty, freedom and independence. They therefore expressly renounced ..."
4. A Treatise on the Law of Executors and Administrators by Edward Vaughan Williams, Walter Vere Vaughan Williams (1877)
"... they must all join in bringing actions, (o) though some be within the age of
seventeen years, (p) or have not proved the will, (7) or renounced probate, ..."
5. A Digest of the International Law of the United States: Taken from Documents by Francis Wharton (1887)
"... but at tho last treaty of peace prior to the American Revolution had expressly
renounced it. "At the commencement of the American Revolution, therefore, ..."
6. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1887)
"luxury ; and renounced, for the praise of chastity, the soft eadt •• ments of
conjugal society. Some ecclesiastic, of real or sanctity, was chosen to direct ..."
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