RENOUNCEMENT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does renouncement mean? 

• RENOUNCEMENT (noun)
  The noun RENOUNCEMENT has 1 sense:

1. an act (spoken or written) declaring that something is surrendered or disowned

  Familiarity information: RENOUNCEMENT used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• RENOUNCEMENT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An act (spoken or written) declaring that something is surrendered or disowned

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

renouncement; renunciation

Hypernyms ("renouncement" is a kind of...):

resignation (the act of giving up (a claim or office or possession etc.))

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "renouncement"):

relinquishing; relinquishment (a verbal act of renouncing a claim or right or position etc.)

Derivation:

renounce (cast off)

renounce (give up, such as power, as of monarchs and emperors, or duties and obligations)

 Context examples 

The luxuries of the old country, said Mr. Micawber, with an intense satisfaction in their renouncement, we abandon.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Though I made no further observation of her at the moment, I may mention here what I did not discover until afterwards, namely, that she was one of a series of protegees whom my aunt had taken into her service expressly to educate in a renouncement of mankind, and who had generally completed their abjuration by marrying the baker.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)