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Renunciation

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Renunciation meaning

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.

Example sentences (20)

Such renunciates are accorded high respect in Hindu society, because their outward renunciation of selfishness and worldliness serves as an inspiration to householders who strive for mental renunciation.

An unquestioning acceptance was expected and the emphasis was on self-sacrifice, renunciation of the self and conforming to life in community.

However, Benedict XVI has opened up a new path: It is the first renunciation of a pope made not because he was under pressure or incapacitated but because he was lucidly aware that he no longer had the strength to carry forward the boat of Peter.

The Russian Embassy in Tallinn is currently not processing citizenship renunciation requests, according to its website.

Card’s son and sole heir did not object to Young’s request, according to a renunciation form he signed in June.

He and Mrs. Fatty had, in the years since her renunciation ceremony, struck up an unlikely friendship.

Soon he’s running a quiz show called, with America’s proud renunciation of grammar, “Who Do You Trust?

The central themes for the Jains are deeksha and nirvan (renunciation and liberation), for Valmiki and Tulsidas they are dharma (duty) and Brahminism, while the Dashrath Jatakas of Buddhism are smaller in scale and more practical in outlook.

In fact the 2016 election saw nothing short of a renunciation of the hated red states.

It demands not only a great resolve to help mankind from a possible apocalypse, but also renunciation of age-old straight-jackets.

The four stages are: i.e. the advisory role in the family circle; Total renunciation of the world and its cares.

To some Jews, the president’s attacks on the congresswomen are a fierce renunciation of anti-Semitism and a defense of Israel.

To this are added the “revelations,” about what Benedict XVI learned in Cuba in the spring of 2012, which would have led him to his renunciation.

When Danny marries, it is to a bright woman for whom renunciation comes easily.

Ye hamara slogan hai (Hindus stand for renunciation, Muslims for integrity, Christians for love and Sikhs for sacrifice.

According to the law, there is no need to hold a referendum to approve such a renunciation, if the concession agreement has been approved by a majority of 80 members of the Knesset.

It has legal right to do what it does, and she has to revoke that legal right through the renunciation.

Therefore, renunciation of sin and the devil is essential for receiving the true spiritual values of the Sacraments.

All the guests shout their renunciation as they rush away.

Although Die Meistersinger main is a comedy, it also elucidates Wagner's ideas on the place of music in society, on renunciation of Wille ( Will ), and on the solace that music can bring in a world full of Wahn main (delusion, folly, self-deception).