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Word Meanings - ABNEGATION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

a denial; a renunciation. With abnegation of God, of his honor, and of religion, they may retain the friendship of the court. Knox.

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  • HONORABLE
    1. Worthy of honor; fit to be esteemed or regarded; estimable; illustrious. Thy name and honorable family. Shak. 2. High-minded; actuated by principles of honor, or a scrupulous regard to probity, rectitude, or reputation. 3. Proceeding from an
  • RETAINMENT
    The act of retaining; retention. Dr. H. More.
  • HONORABLENESS
    1. The state of being honorable; eminence; distinction. 2. Conformity to the principles of honor, probity, or moral rectitude; fairness; uprightness; reputableness.
  • RENUNCIATION
    Formal declination to take out letters of administration, or to assume an office, privilege, or right. Syn. -- Renouncement; disownment; disavowal; disavowment; disclaimer; rejection; abjuration; recantation; denial; abandonment; relinquishment.
  • COURTESAN
    A woman who prostitutes herself for hire; a prostitute; a harlot. Lasciviously decked like a courtesan. Sir H. Wotton. (more info) courtier, It. cortigiano; or directly fr. It. cortigiana, or Sp.
  • FRIENDSHIP
    1. The state of being friends; friendly relation, or attachment, to a person, or between persons; affection arising from mutual esteem and good will; friendliness; amity; good will. There is little friendship in the world. Bacon. There can be no
  • COURT TENNIS
    See TENNIS
  • COURT-CUPBOARD
    A movable sideboard or buffet, on which plate and other articles of luxury were displayed on special ocasions. A way with the joint stools, remove the court-cupboard, look to the plate. Shak.
  • COURTEPY
    A short coat of coarse cloth. Full threadbare was his overeste courtepy. Chaucer.
  • RELIGION
    A monastic or religious order subject to a regulated mode of life; the religious state; as, to enter religion. Trench. A good man was there of religion. Chaucer. 4. Strictness of fidelity in conforming to any practice, as if it were an enjoined
  • COURTBRED
    Bred, or educated, at court; polished; courtly.
  • HONOR
    1. Esteem due or paid to worth; high estimation; respect; consideration; reverence; veneration; manifestation of respect or reverence. A prophet is not without honor, save in his own country. Matt. xiii.
  • COURTESANSHIP
    Harlotry.
  • COURT-MARTIAL
    A court consisting of military or naval officers, for the trial of one belonging to the army or navy, or of offenses against military or naval law.
  • RELIGIONISM
    1. The practice of, or devotion to, religion. 2. Affectation or pretense of religion.
  • HONORARY
    1. Done as a sign or evidence of honor; as, honorary services. Macaulay. 2. Conferring honor, or intended merely to confer honor without emolument; as, an honorary degree. "Honorary arches." Addison. 3. Holding a title or place without rendering
  • COURTLIKE
    After the manner of a court; elegant; polite; courtly.
  • COURTEOUSNESS
    The quality of being courteous; politeness; courtesy.
  • COURT-BARON
    An inferior court of civil jurisdiction, attached to a manor, and held by the steward; a baron's court; -- now fallen into disuse.
  • COURTELLE
    a wool-like fabric.
  • CORRELIGIONIST
    A co-religion
  • SELF-RENUNCIATION
    The act of renouncing, or setting aside, one's own wishes, claims, etc.; self-sacrifice.
  • OUTCOURT
    An outer or exterior court. The skirts and outcourts of heaven. South.
  • ABRENUNCIATION
    Absolute renunciation or repudiation. An abrenunciation of that truth which he so long had professed, and still believed. Fuller.
  • DISHONOR
    The nonpayment or nonacceptance of commercial paper by the party on whom it is drawn. Syn. -- Disgrace; ignominy; shame; censure; reproach; opprobrium. (more info) deshonur, F. déshonneur; pref. des- + honor, honur, F. 1. Lack of honor;
  • UNCOURTLINESS
    Absence of courtliness; rudeness; rusticity. Addison.

 

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