renouncement

Example Sentences

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Considering that an estimated 3 to 6 million Americans currently reside abroad, the number of renouncements is small.

From Time • Apr. 20, 2010

Only, alas, his Edinburgh lectures are indefinitely postponed—and other renouncements, of an unenlivening sort, have had, as indispensable precautions and prudences, to follow.

From The Letters of Henry James (volume I) by James, Henry

"Of their sacrifices, their renouncements, their good deeds," replied Wisdom.

From The Faery Tales of Weir by Sholl, Anna McClure

I remembered, too, something that Martha had told me, about these same fellows doing "a power o' good," and other hints I had collected vaguely, of renouncements, rules, self denials, and the like.

From Dream Days by Grahame, Kenneth

Nor would it be fair to allege that the will plays no part in all these renouncements.

From The Life of the Bee by Sutro, Alfred