abjuration

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No, it wasn’t anything at all about how lovely free markets are, nothing to do with how we must all bow down to the capitalist plutocrats and not even an abjuration to avoid socialism.

From Forbes

But when their popularity spawned numerous soft-core imitations, he revised his opinion again and published an “abjuration” of the trilogy.

From New York Times

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 Project Gutenberg

If this were duly attended to, he could always be handed over to the secular arm without a hearing in case of relapse, except when the abjuration had been for light suspicion.

From Project Gutenberg

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 Project Gutenberg