Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Of or pertaining to renunciation.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Pertaining to renunciation; containing or declaring a renunciation.
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- adjective Serving to
renounce ;rebellious ,contrary .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Densher is clearly a Jamesian standby, a stock "renunciatory" type, and his relation with Kate Croy is presented by James as a donné, not as anything problematical that requires psychological analysis.
Digging James Tintner, Adeline R. 1972
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Russians near and far questioned the contradiction between Tolstoy's renunciatory teachings and the privileged, aristocratic lifestyle he refused to abandon.
The Road to the Stationmaster's House Bertrand M. Patenaude 2010
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The place would be near ruin by the time it came his way, in midlife, but he was still glad to turn it over to his addled younger brother — the sort of renunciatory gesture Isherwood had been making toward hierarchical, heterosexual England ever since public school.
Darling Me 2005
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The place would be near ruin by the time it came his way, in midlife, but he was still glad to turn it over to his addled younger brother — the sort of renunciatory gesture Isherwood had been making toward hierarchical, heterosexual England ever since public school.
Darling Me 2005
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‘I have nothing more to say,’ returned Mrs Wilfer, with a meek renunciatory action of her gloves.
Our Mutual Friend 2004
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Love of the second kind — renunciatory love — consists in a yearning to undergo self-sacrifice for the object beloved, regardless of any consideration whether such self-sacrifice will benefit or injure the object in question.
Youth 2003
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At the same time were signed the special conditions relating to each important article of the treaty, and the renunciatory clauses in which the kings abandoned their rights over the territory they had yielded to one another.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria" Various
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He had not kissed her more than two or three times since the memorable night of the dress rehearsal, but he kissed her to-night, and Norma felt something solemn, something renunciatory, in the kiss.
The Beloved Woman Kathleen Thompson Norris 1923
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Martie treasured his letter with burning, secret pride, and with perhaps a faint, renunciatory pang.
Martie, the Unconquered Kathleen Thompson Norris 1923
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The Riksdag, according to its custom, sought at the opening of the reign to impose upon the new sovereign a renunciatory coronation oath.
The Governments of Europe Frederic Austin Ogg 1914
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