abjuration
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On the scaffold's spacious platform Joan is to appear, surrounded by the ecclesiastics, and make a public abjuration.
From The Executioner's Knife Or Joan of Arc by Sue, Eug?ne
He was appointed librarian of the Vatican by Innocent X., and was sent to Innsbruck by Alexander VII. to receive Queen Christina’s abjuration of Protestantism.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 5 "Hinduism" to "Home, Earls of" by Various
More straightforward and frank in his projects, moreover, convinced of the success of his plan, the Bishop sums up the deliberation and absolutely opposes the idea of attempting a second abjuration.
From The Executioner's Knife Or Joan of Arc by Sue, Eug?ne
In making the abjuration it will not be he that condemns truth, but the council; as for perjury, if perjury there be, it will fall on the heads of those who exact it.
From A History of The Inquisition of The Middle Ages; volume II by Lea, Henry Charles
It did not, of course, contain the abjuration of Episcopal Church-government.
From Sir Thomas Urquhart of Cromartie, Knight by Willcock, John
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jur, jus, List 1
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