renunciant

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English

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin renuntiāns, present participle of renuntiāre.

Noun

renunciant (plural renunciants)

  1. A person who renounces something; especially, someone who renounces worldly life for spiritual reasons, or a person who renounces their citizenship. [from 18th c.]
    • 2016, Sunil Khilnani, Incarnations, Penguin 2017, p. 10:
      The stereotypical image of the Jain renunciant is a monk (or possibly nun) dutifully sweeping the ground gently before him with a small broom […].

Synonyms

Adjective

renunciant (comparative more renunciant, superlative most renunciant)

  1. That renounces; renouncing. [from 19th c.]

Synonyms

Catalan

Verb

renunciant

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Latin

Verb

(deprecated template usage) renūnciant

  1. third-person plural present active indicative of renūnciō
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