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.
Related words: (words related to ABNEGATION)
- 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.