renunciation
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renunciation (plural renunciations)
- the act of rejecting or renouncing something as invalid
- The President's renunciation of the treaty has upset Congress.
- the resignation of an ecclesiastical office
- The bishop's renunciation was on account of his ill health.
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the act of rejecting or renouncing something as invalid
[edit] External links
- renunciation in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
- renunciation in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911