Hus refused to sign a formula of abjuration; he was then condemned as a Wycliffite heretic and burned at the stake on July 6.
At the death of the Polish king Sigismund III in 1632, Muscovy made an ill-advised attempt to regain Smolensk that ended in military disaster, but in 1634 it obtained Władysław's formal abjuration of the Polish king's questionable claim to the title of tsar.
Five days later, however, the massacre of Protestants began on St. Bartholomew's Day. Henry of Navarre had been able to escape death in the massacre by means of an expedient abjuration; despite her continued interest in other liaisons, Margaret refused to be parted from him.
Johnson at this time clearly supported the governmental opposition, which was composed of disaffected Whigs, Tories, Jacobites (those who continued their allegiance to the Stuart line of James II), and Nonjurors (those who refused to take either the oath of allegiance to the Hanover kings or the oath of abjuration of James II and the Stuarts).
De Caro explained that he wanted to incorporate five lunar watercolors, using the Florence Sheet as a guide; he also wanted to add Galileo's signature, based on the astronomer's 1633 abjuration document, in which he had written "Io Galileo Galilei Manu Propria," or "I, Galileo Galilei, have done this in my own hand".
As in "The Tempest," old age is greeted here with the rituals of divestiture and abjuration: the occasion for verbal magic is the renunciation of every other kind.
But when their popularity spawned numerous soft-core imitations, he revised his opinion again and published an "abjuration" of the trilogy.
Well, his chief lackey paid a visit to Morgan and Carol and invited them to overcome their abjuration of violence and join him in fighting the Saviors.
In these erudite and highly readable pieces, he both charted the gradual abjuration of history by modernist artists, writers and thinkers, and showed how, paradoxically, they could be best understood historically, in the context of the decay of liberal values in pre-1914 Vienna.
He offers the ultimate sacrifice ("I'll burn my books"), but, unlike that of Shakespeare's Prospero, it's an abjuration too late.
