abjuration

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After abjuration, he was duly absolved and condemned to degradation from holy orders and imprisonment for life, in chains and on bread and water, in the inquisitorial prison of Carcassonne.

From A History of The Inquisition of The Middle Ages; volume II by Lea, Henry Charles

From his Catharan bishop he received absolution for his oath of abjuration, and was received back into the sect.

From A History of The Inquisition of The Middle Ages; volume II by Lea, Henry Charles

This was not a strictly formal abjuration such as was customarily required of prisoners of the Inquisition, yet it might have sufficed.

From A History of The Inquisition of The Middle Ages; volume II by Lea, Henry Charles

Doubts, however, as to the genuineness of his abjuration again troubled the Kirk.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 8 "Hudson River" to "Hurstmonceaux" by Various

And certainly, since the great day of the abjuration of King Philip II in the year 1581, the country had not passed through any such violent crisis as it was now facing.

From The Rise of the Dutch Kingdom 1795-1813 by Van Loon, Hendrik Willem