Sentence examples for a renunciation from inspiring English sources

A renunciation of Massachusetts, really.

A renunciation of droit du seigneur.

Otherwise, celibacy itself would lose its meaning as a renunciation.

There was what one historian called a "renunciation of renunciation".

It was a renunciation that seemed less courageous than mad.

He isn't an answer to old debates so much as a renunciation of them.

Is his current renunciation a renunciation of his own radical youth?

Henry James, who loved and respected Stevenson, saw in his friend a renunciation of adult life.

accepted the United Nations resolution that called for recognition of Israel and a renunciation of terrorism.

An essential undertaking was a renunciation of armed attacks if the other side was prepared to submit to arbitration.

As with Bausch, this indifference to the notion of development seems to me a renunciation of intelligence, a Warholism.