abjuration

Example Sentences

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On the second day after the abjuration, the patient is out of danger.

From The Executioner's Knife Or Joan of Arc by Sue, Eug?ne

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

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

Henry IV., after his victories, his abjuration, and his coronation, caused a cross to be erected in Rome, with the following inscription: In hoc signa vincis.

From Voltaire: A Sketch of his Life and Works by Foote, G. W. (George William)

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