Sentence example with the word 'renounced'

renounced

abandoned, contemned, disapproved, disowned, excluded, obsolescent, out of use, pensioned off, relinquished, sacrificed, surrendered

Last update: June 25, 2015


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A bribe, and hastened to reconquer Euboea; but the other land possessions could not be recovered, and in a thirty years' truce which was arranged in 445 Athens definitely renounced her predominance in Greece Proper.   [Please select]

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Leblanc seemed to have renounced the idea of resistance.   [Please select]

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The crews of the Lachesis and Atropos and with them their captains, Wolverstone and Yberville, renounced the intention.   [Please select]

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Napoleon renounced, once for all, sentiments and affections, and would help himself with his hands and his head.   [Please select]

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Gradually he left the church in which he was born, renounced all denominations, and called himself simply Christian.   [Please select]

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Several of the Lucy Stoners, however, had renounced Europe for the present, a reactionary government refusing to issue separate passports.   [Please select]

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My gowns, as time went on, were of a magnificent simplicity; all frou-frous were renounced.   [Please select]

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I renounced the name of Neville, and assumed that under which you knew me.   [Please select]

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For he alone has retained his original natural right to all, which the rest have entirely and forever renounced.   [Please select]

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The duke was bound by this act to hold himself in obedience to the legislative decisions of the council, and renounced all right of levying arbitrary taxes or duties on the state.   [Please select]

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The archdukes, in their own names and in that of the king of Spain, declared the United Provinces to be free and independent states, on which they renounced all claim whatever.   [Please select]

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