What is another word for abjuration?

Pronunciation: [ɐbd͡ʒjʊɹˈe͡ɪʃən] (IPA)

Abjuration is a strong word that means the act of renouncing or rejecting something, usually a belief or an allegiance. If you wish to express the same idea using a different word, here are a few synonyms that you can use. Repudiation means the act of disowning something, or rejecting an idea or a person. Abnegation refers to the act of renouncing or giving up something voluntarily, like a habit or a desire. Denial is a synonym for abjuration that means the act of refusing something or refusing to believe in something. Lastly, renunciation is a synonym for abjuration that means the formal rejection or resignation from a position or belief system.

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Usage examples for Abjuration

A series of tracts written in the character of a Quaker quickly followed, one rebuking a Dissenting preacher for inciting the new Government to vindictive severities, another rebuking Sacheverell for hypocrisy and perjury in taking the oath of abjuration, a third rebuking the Duke of Ormond for encouraging Jacobite and High-Church mobs.
"Daniel Defoe"
William Minto
We hear that Charles Edward's confessor, with whom, despite his secret abjuration of Catholicism, he continued to associate, was a notorious drunkard; and that the mistress with whom he lived for many years, and whom he even passed off as his wife, was also addicted to drinking; nay, Lord Elcho is said to have witnessed a tipsy squabble between the Young Pretender and Miss Walkenshaw, the lady in question, across the table of a low Paris tavern.
"The Countess of Albany"
Violet Paget (AKA Vernon Lee)
He was one of the Lords Justices by virtue of his office, and as such had already taken the oath of allegiance to the new sovereign, and of abjuration to James.
"A History of the Four Georges, Volume I (of 4)"
Justin McCarthy

Famous quotes with Abjuration

  • In our time the hot abjuration to keep politics out of the pulpit is merely the way the 19th Century offers the thirty pieces of silver.
    George William Curtis

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