Sentence example with the word 'renunciation'

renunciation

abandonment, capitulation, contravention, disaffirmation, disposition, gainsaying, nonexercise, relinquishment, retreat, self-sacrifice, temperateness

Definition n. rejecting or disowning or disclaiming as invalid

Last update: June 15, 2015


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Renunciation of Kingdom by Buddha.   [noun]

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More cannot be done, it would seem, toward self-renunciation, toward sacrificing socialism upon the altar of bourgeois parliamentarism.   [noun]

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Discipleship demands the renunciation of possessiveness (Luke 14:33), of the material greed which causes so much human deprivation and environmental destruction.   [noun]

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She put aside all consideration of that refuge which would have meant so complete a renunciation and farewell.   [noun]

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But there must be no vows, Angela, no renunciation of kindred and home.   [noun]

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Love is pain," she said in dying, "but this pain--especially that of renunciation for love's sake--bears with it a joy, an exquisite joy, which renders death easy.   [noun]

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The monastery is a renunciation.   [noun]

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Non-Christians, that is those who find the aim of their lives in earthly happiness, must always rule Christians, the aim of whose lives is the renunciation of such earthly happiness.   [noun]

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