Sentence examples for were renounced from inspiring English sources
verb
To give up, resign, surrender, atsake.
- To renounce a title to land or to a throne
The love affair was short-lived, and soon vuvuzelas were renounced as a scourge.
They were renounced by the Lutheran Church Missouri Synod in 1983 and the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America in 1994.
An idealistic Spartan fervour characterized these communities, which often consisted of illiterate labourers; intoxicants, tobacco, and sometimes even coffee were renounced; and millenarian enthusiasm took the place of religion, as it has often done in Spain.
Each testified to the increasingly popular view that human beings are endowed with certain eternal and inalienable rights that never were renounced when humankind "contracted" to enter the social order from the natural order and never were diminished by the claim of the "divine right of kings".
After Hsu fled the California justice system again in 2007, his contributions were renounced by an increasing number of elected officials.
Implicitly, at least, they were renouncing the idea that their counterparts were heretics.
Yet as soon as Saudi Arabia was elected, the rulers in Riyadh declared that they were renouncing the seat.
The past is renounced, but not fully.
The Bordeaux heritage has not been renounced.
"And now he's renounced violence".
Storm drains relieved, brick walks relaid, a heritage of dust and wrappers is renounced.
