renunciation

English

Etymology

From Latin renūntiātiō. Compare renounce.

Noun

renunciation (countable and uncountable, plural renunciations)

1. The act of rejecting or renouncing something as invalid.

   The President's renunciation of the treaty has upset Congress.

   • 1917, Bertrand Russell, Why Men Fight: A Method of Abolishing the International Duel:

     The life of the spirit demands readiness for renunciation when the occasion arises […] .

2. The resignation of an ecclesiastical office.

   The bishop's renunciation was on account of his ill health.

3. (law) The act by which a person abandons a right acquired, but without transferring it to another.
4. (Christianity) In the Anglican baptismal service, the part in which the candidate in person or by his sureties renounces the Devil and all his works.

Derived terms

• self-renunciation

Related terms

• renouncement

Translations

the act of rejecting or renouncing something as invalid

• Bulgarian: отказ (bg) m (otkaz)
• Dutch: verwerping (nl) f
• Finnish: hylkääminen (fi)
• French: renonciation (fr)
• Greek: απάρνηση (el) f (apárnisi), αποκύρηξη f (apokýrixi)
• Irish: dearadh m
• Italian: rinuncia (it) f, privazione (it) f
• Japanese: 放棄 (ja) (hōki), 棄却 (ja) (kikyaku)
• Latin: abdicatio f
• Norwegian: avvisning (no) m
• Russian: отка́з (ru) m (otkáz), отрече́ние (ru) n (otrečénije)
• Scottish Gaelic: àicheadh m
• Serbo-Croatian: odbacivanje, otkazivanje, odricanje (sh)
• Tagalog: halugamit (of rights)
• Tocharian B: rilläññe

the resignation of an ecclesiastical office

• Bulgarian: отричане (bg) n (otričane)
• Dutch: verloochening (nl) f
• Finnish: ero (fi), eroaminen (fi)
• Greek: αποκύρηξη f (apokýrixi)
• Italian: abdicazione (it) f, abiura (it) f
• Russian: отреше́ние (ru) n (otrešénije), отрече́ние (ru) n (otrečénije)
• Scottish Gaelic: àicheadh m
• Serbo-Croatian: odrješenje (sh)

the act by which a person abandons a right acquired, but without transferring it to another

• Dutch: verzaking (nl) f
• Italian: abbandono (it) m
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: abandon (no) m

in the Anglican baptismal service, the part in which the candidate in person or by his sureties renounces the Devil and all his works

See also

• abjurement
• repudiation

Further reading

• “renunciation”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• “renunciation”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.