Word Meanings - RENUNCIATION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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.

Additional info about word: 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. (more info) 1. The act of renouncing.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of RENUNCIATION)

• Abnegation
• Denial
• disallowance
• renunciation
• abjuration
• stint
• abstinence
• Resignation
• Surrender
• relinquishment
• forsaking
• abandonment
• abdication
• submission
• acquiescence
• patience
• endurance

Related words: (words related to RENUNCIATION)

• STINTLESS
  Without stint or restraint. The stintlesstears of old Heraclitus. Marston.
• RESIGNATION
  1. The act of resigning or giving up, as a claim, possession, office, or the like; surrender; as, the resignation of a crown or comission. 2. The state of being resigned or submissive; quiet or patient submission; unresisting acquiescence; as,
• FORSAKE
  1. To quit or leave entirely; to desert; to abandon; to depart or withdraw from; to leave; as, false friends and flatterers forsake us in adversity. If his children forsake my law, and walk not in my judgments. Ps. lxxxix. 30. 2. To renounce; to
• FORSAKER
  One who forsakes or deserts.
• 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.
• SURRENDEROR
  One who makes a surrender, as of an estate. Bouvier.
• RELINQUISHMENT
  The act of relinquishing.
• STINTEDNESS
  The state of being stinted.
• SUBMISSION
  An agreement by which parties engage to submit any matter of controversy between them to the decision of arbitrators. Wharton (Law Dict.). Bouvier. (more info) 1. The act of submitting; the act of yielding to power or authority; surrender of the
• DENIAL
  1. The act of gainsaying, refusing, or disowning; negation; -- the contrary of affirmation. You ought to converse with so much sincerity that your bare affirmation or denial may be sufficient. Bp. Stillingfleet. 2. A refusal to admit the truth
• ABNEGATION
  a denial; a renunciation. With abnegation of God, of his honor, and of religion, they may retain the friendship of the court. Knox.
• DISALLOWANCE
  The act of disallowing; refusal to admit or permit; rejection. Syn. -- Disapprobation; prohibition; condemnation; censure; rejection.
• ABDICATION
  The act of abdicating; the renunciation of a high office, dignity, or trust, by its holder; commonly the voluntary renunciation of sovereign power; as, abdication of the throne, government, power, authority.
• ABSTINENCE
  1. The act or practice of abstaining; voluntary forbearance of any action, especially the refraining from an indulgence of appetite, or from customary gratifications of animal or sensual propensities. Specifically, the practice of abstaining from
• STINT
  1. Limit; bound; restraint; extent. God has wrote upon no created thing the utmost stint of his power. South. 2. Quantity or task assigned; proportion allotted. His old stint -- three thousand pounds a year. Cowper.
• ABJURATION
  1. The act of abjuring or forswearing; a renunciation upon oath; as, abjuration of the realm, a sworn banishment, an oath taken to leave the country and never to return. 2. A solemn recantation or renunciation; as, an abjuration of heresy. Oath
• STINTER
  One who, or that which, stints.
• SURRENDERER
  One who surrenders.
• STINTANCE
  Restraint; stoppage.
• PATIENCE
  A kind of dock , less common in America than in Europe; monk's rhubarb. (more info) 1. The state or quality of being patient; the power of suffering with fortitude; uncomplaining endurance of evils or wrongs, as toil, pain, poverty,
• SELF-RENUNCIATION
  The act of renouncing, or setting aside, one's own wishes, claims, etc.; self-sacrifice.
• ABRENUNCIATION
  Absolute renunciation or repudiation. An abrenunciation of that truth which he so long had professed, and still believed. Fuller.
• UNPATIENCE
  Impatience.
• NONSUBMISSION
  Want of submission; failure or refusal to submit.
• SURRENDER
  To yield; to render or deliver up; to give up; as, a principal surrendered by his bail, a fugitive from justice by a foreign state, or a particular estate by the tenant thereof to him in remainder or reversion. (more info) 1. To yield to the power
• PRENUNCIATION
  The act of announcing or proclaiming beforehand.
• INABSTINENCE
  Want of abstinence; indulgence. "The inabstinence of Eve." Milton.
• SELF-ABNEGATION
  Self-denial; self-renunciation; self-sacrifice.
• NONACQUIESCENCE
  Refusal of acquiescence; failure to yield or comply.