Word Meanings - RENOUNCEMENT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The act of disclaiming or rejecting; renunciation. Shak.

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• 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.
• REJECTER
  One who rejects.
• DISCLAIM
  To relinquish or deny having a claim; to disavow another's claim; to decline accepting, as an estate, interest, or office. Burrill. Syn. -- To disown; disavow; renounce; repudiate. (more info) 1. To renounce all claim to deny; ownership of, or
• REJECT
  re- + jacere to throw: cf. F. rejeter, formerly also spelt rejecter. 1. To cast from one; to throw away; to discard. Therefore all this exercise of hunting . . . the Utopians have rejected to their butchers. Robynson . Reject me not from among
• REJECTANEOUS
  Not chosen orr received; rejected. "Profane, rejectaneous, and reprobate people." Barrow.
• REJECTION
  Act of rejecting, or state of being rejected.
• REJECTABLE
  Capable of being, or that ought to be, rejected.
• REJECTIVE
  Rejecting, or tending to reject.
• REJECTMENT
  Act of rejecting; matter rejected, or thrown away. Eaton.
• DISCLAIMER
  A denial, disavowal, or renunciation, as of a title, claim, interest, estate, or trust; relinquishment or waiver of an interest or estate. Burrill. 3. A public disavowal, as of pretensions, claims, opinions, and the like. Burke. (more info) 1.
• REJECTAMENTA
  Things thrown out or away; especially, things excreted by a living organism. J. Fleming.
• REJECTITIOUS
  Implying or requiring rejection; rejectable. Cudworth.
• SELF-RENUNCIATION
  The act of renouncing, or setting aside, one's own wishes, claims, etc.; self-sacrifice.
• IRREJECTABLE
  That can not be rejected; irresistible. Boyle.
• ABRENUNCIATION
  Absolute renunciation or repudiation. An abrenunciation of that truth which he so long had professed, and still believed. Fuller.
• PRENUNCIATION
  The act of announcing or proclaiming beforehand.