Word Meanings - ABJURATION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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

Additional info about word: 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 of abjuration, an oath asserting the right of the present royal family to the crown of England, and expressly abjuring allegiance to the descendants of the Pretender. Brande & C.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of ABJURATION)

• Abnegation
• Denial
• disallowance
• renunciation
• abjuration
• stint
• abstinence

Related words: (words related to ABJURATION)

• STINTLESS
  Without stint or restraint. The stintlesstears of old Heraclitus. Marston.
• 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.
• STINTEDNESS
  The state of being stinted.
• 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.
• 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
  Any one of several species of small sandpipers, as the sanderling of Europe and America, the dunlin, the little stint of India (Tringa minuta), etc. Called also pume. A phalarope.
• 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.
• STINTANCE
  Restraint; stoppage.
• 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.
• 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.
• SELF-DENIAL
  The denial of one's self; forbearing to gratify one's own desires; self-sacrifice.