Definition of Renounced

1. Verb. (past of renounce) ¹

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Definition of Renounced

1. renounce [v] - See also: renounce

Lexicographical Neighbors of Renounced

renormalize
renormalized
renormalizes
renormalizing
renormalon
renormalons
renotified
renotifies
renotify
renotifying
renotrophic
renotrophin
renotropic
renotropin
renounce
renounced (current term)
renouncement
renouncements
renouncer
renouncers
renounces
renouncing
renourish
renourished
renourishes
renourishing
renourishment
renourishments
renovascular
renovascular hypertension

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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