renounce
Example Sentences
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All were driven to renounce the material world and liberate themselves from desires by going “forth to homelessness,” as several poems put it.
Nicknamed “Bitcoin Jesus” for his early evangelism for digital currency, Ver had renounced his citizenship more than a decade earlier.
From Salon
In May, the PKK formally renounced its decades-long armed struggle against the Turkish state, ending a conflict that claimed tens of thousands of lives.
From Barron's
The Buddha -- who renounced material wealth to embrace and preach a life of non-attachment -- founded a religion that now has more than 500 million adherents.
From Barron's
She “renounced her philosophical incredulity in the face of death” and expressed “full confidence in the afterlife in her last writings.”
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
