renunciation
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- n rejecting or disowning or disclaiming as invalid
- n the state of having rejected your religious beliefs or your political party or a cause (often in favor of opposing beliefs or causes)
- n an act (spoken or written) declaring that something is surrendered or disowned
- n the act of renouncing; sacrificing or giving up or surrendering (a possession or right or title or privilege etc.)
- LYNDON JOHNSON'S renunciation of a second term as President dumfounded all but a score of relatives and top aides, who suspected that it might be coming.
- He brought home from Moscow two red-bound leather volumes containing a renunciation-of-force treaty between West Germany and the Soviet Union that he and Soviet Foreign Minister .
- LYNDON JOHNSON'S renunciation of a second term as President dumfounded all but a score of relatives and top aides, who suspected that it might be coming.