renunciation
nounEtymology From Latin renūntiātiō. Compare renounce.
1
The act of rejecting or renouncing something as invalid.
- The President's renunciation of the treaty has upset Congress.
- The life of the spirit demands readiness for renunciation when the occasion arises […].1917, Bertrand Russell, Why Men Fight: A Method of Abolishing the International Duel:
2
The resignation of an ecclesiastical office.
- The bishop's renunciation was on account of his ill health.
3
Law The act by which a person abandons a right acquired, but without transferring it to another.
4
Christianity In the Anglican baptismal service, the part in which the candidate in person or by his sureties renounces the Devil and all his works.
- Derived terms
- nonrenunciation, self-renunciation
- Related terms
- renouncement, abjurement, repudiation