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Sacrifice, labor and renunciation were Sparta's watchwords.

For Clare and her sisters, fasting and renunciation were not physical punishments enacted on their bodies stemming from a foundation of shame or degradation but were testaments to their faith and essential elements of their religious experiences.

Renunciation is not unheard-of.

That's not quite a total renunciation, is it?

But in fiction, at least, renunciation is much more interesting than confrontation.

The joy in giving and renunciation is clearly indicated in art.

The reason it doesn't feel like renunciation is because it's not.

In other instances, acts of renunciation are simply smart political pragmatism.

Signs of renunciation are everywhere in "Later the Same Day," her last book of fiction.

Renunciation was Edith Wharton's métier; her readers, more sentimental than she, complained of her refusal to provide her heroines with happy endings.

Similarly, the last life of Gautama, up to the time of his great renunciation, is told entirely as a royal story.