abjuration
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A solemn recantation or renunciation; as, an abjuration of heresy.
From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary by Webster, Noah
The act of abjuring or forswearing; a renunciation upon oath; as, abjuration of the realm, a sworn banishment, an oath taken to leave the country and never to return.
From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary by Webster, Noah
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
I was really in the designated church on the designated day, and I did there undergo a religious ceremony; but this ceremony was no hateful abjuration, but a very innocent conjugation.
From The Prose Writings of Heinrich Heine by Heine, Heinrich
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
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