renunciation

Meanings

Plural: renunciations

Noun

• rejecting or disowning or disclaiming as invalid
• the state of having rejected your religious beliefs or your political party or a cause (often in favor of opposing beliefs or causes)
• an act (spoken or written) declaring that something is surrendered or disowned
• the act of renouncing; sacrificing or giving up or surrendering (a possession or right or title or privilege etc.)
• The act of rejecting or renouncing something as invalid.
• The resignation of an ecclesiastical office.
• The act by which a person abandons a right acquired, but without transferring it to another.
• In the Anglican baptismal service, the part in which the candidate in person or by his sureties renounces the Devil and all his works.

Synonyms

apostasy, defection, forgoing, forswearing, renouncement, repudiation

Related Words

abjurement, renouncement, repudiation