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- noun Plural form of
renunciation .
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Examples
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Waiting periods to meet with consular officers to formalize renunciations have grown.
Growing Number of American Expatriates Are Renouncing Their Citizenship | Impact Lab 2010
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Composed by a holy master during one of the many Inquisitions where Jews were forced to renounce their Maker or die, Kol Nidre declares the opening of heaven's gates to the cries of the Jewish people; its sacred stanzas calling for the penitent to renounce prior renunciations and return to the Holy One as clean and white as newborn lambs.
Cheryl Pearl Sucher: Life Is Prayer During The Days Of Awe Cheryl Pearl Sucher 2011
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As he tells it, religious transformation is about hope and change, but it's also about what change isn't: renunciations, revelations, ecstasy.
Briallen Hopper: Amazing Grace: How Conversion Really Works Briallen Hopper 2011
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There were 235 renunciations in 2008 and 743 last year.
Growing Number of American Expatriates Are Renouncing Their Citizenship | Impact Lab 2010
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Composed by a holy master during one of the many Inquisitions where Jews were forced to renounce their Maker or die, Kol Nidre declares the opening of heaven's gates to the cries of the Jewish people; its sacred stanzas calling for the penitent to renounce prior renunciations and return to the Holy One as clean and white as newborn lambs.
Cheryl Pearl Sucher: Life Is Prayer During The Days Of Awe Cheryl Pearl Sucher 2011
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There can be no underestimating the in-so-many-words aspect of these renunciations.
Major Hasan, 'Star Officer' Dorothy Rabinowitz 2011
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As he tells it, religious transformation is about hope and change, but it's also about what change isn't: renunciations, revelations, ecstasy.
Briallen Hopper: Amazing Grace: How Conversion Really Works Briallen Hopper 2011
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If your readers were not degenerates and clapping zombies, they would have already swamped this so-called blog in healthy renunciations of the trendy Giraffatitan agenda.
"HIgh above the mountain, an eagle calling down..." fusijui 2009
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Hark, from the wood on either side murmurings of hope and hard sobbing of despair, young laughter of joy and aged renunciations!
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But if you decide you want these things, or even if you happen into them haphazardly, realize the challenges, sacrifices, responsibilities and renunciations involved.
Dr. Wendy Jacobson: Hollywood's Hidden Morality Tale in The Hurt Locker vs. Avatar 2010
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