Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act of abjuring; a renunciation upon oath, or with great solemnity or strong asseveration: as, to take an oath of abjuration; an abjuration of heresy.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The act of abjuring or forswearing; a renunciation upon oath.
- noun A solemn recantation or renunciation.
- noun an oath asserting the right of the present royal family to the crown of England, and expressly abjuring allegiance to the descendants of the Pretender.
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- noun The act of
abjuring .
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- noun a disavowal or taking back of a previous assertion
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The document details that "after the formal abjuration, which is compelling for all those who were even only suspected of heretical crimes, the leading members of the Templar Order are reinstated in the Catholic Communion and readmitted to receive the sacraments."
Vatican Parchment Detailing 14th Century Trial Of Templars Discredits Da Vinci Code 2007
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In some cases the abjuration was the only ceremony required; in others abjuration was followed by the imposition of hands or by unction, or both by the laying on of hands and by unction.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize 1840-1916 1913
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Augustus, and was burned in the old market place 31 May, 1431, after her so-called abjuration at the cemetery of St. Ouen; St. John
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock 1840-1916 1913
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The solemn abjuration which is now proposed in the name of Neo-conservatism resembles a charge of dynamite.
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Jeanne realised now what her "abjuration" had really meant.
The Story of Rouen Theodore Andrea Cook 1897
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One of the consequences of her "abjuration" was that she was wearing woman's dress that very afternoon.
The Story of Rouen Theodore Andrea Cook 1897
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God, his father and our father, but who, without our elder brother to do it first, would never have chosen that self-abjuration which is life, never have become alive like him.
Unspoken Sermons Series I., II., and II. George MacDonald 1864
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Art is, after all, both physical and ideological, while spirituality is conventionally thought to be the abjuration of the physical and ideological.
G. Roger Denson: In Taipei and Hong Kong, Emily Cheng Bridges Science and Faith G. Roger Denson 2011
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Art is, after all, both physical and ideological, while spirituality is conventionally thought to be the abjuration of the physical and ideological.
G. Roger Denson: In Taipei and Hong Kong, Emily Cheng Bridges Science and Faith G. Roger Denson 2011
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Art is, after all, both physical and ideological, while spirituality is conventionally thought to be the abjuration of the physical and ideological.
G. Roger Denson: In Taipei and Hong Kong, Emily Cheng Bridges Science and Faith G. Roger Denson 2011
chained_bear commented on the word abjuration
"Abjuration, in law, is an oath to be taken by officers, civil and military, when admitted into office, and it expressly renounces and abjures any claim of the descendants of the late Pretender to the throne of these kingdoms.
"This oath is required to be taken by all persons in any office, trust, or employment, upon divers sic occasions, under certain pains and penalties by many statutes... and may be tendered by two justices of the peace to any person whom they shall suspect of disaffection."
—Falconer's New Universal Dictionary of the Marine (1816), 2
October 12, 2008