renouncement
- n an act (spoken or written) declaring that something is surrendered or disowned
- But after Hunt published a renouncement of his Christianity in the London Gazette, a journal of record dating back to the 17th century, those same religious leaders agreed to .
- Reminded while revisiting his old village of his brother Hamo, killed at Gallipoli, he muses bitterly over the present "halfhearted renouncement of war," the "heavily armed .
- The reasons for my renouncement will be known in the public square.