How to Use renunciation in a Sentence

renunciation

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  • Their vows include renunciation of all wealth.
  • The renunciation of him and his work, no doubt, has some purpose.
    — Lexy Perez, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 Jan. 2018
  • Again and again, an era of overindulgence begets an era of renunciation: Binge, abstain.
    — Kate Julian, The Atlantic, 1 June 2021
  • This is detox of a sort, but there's little renunciation.
    — Daisy Finer, Condé Nast Traveler, 26 Aug. 2019
  • The narrator seems to be in a period of renunciation in her life.
    — Willing Davidson, The New Yorker, 16 Mar. 2020
  • Spencer says he was surprised by Miller’s renunciation of him.
    — William D. Cohan, The Hive, 9 Aug. 2017
  • The philosopher, known for his great speeches on renunciation and clemency, is himself one of the richest men in ancient Rome.
    — Leo Barraclough, Variety, 20 Dec. 2022
  • Still Here’ The punch-drunk frustration here comes first as an ambiguous lament, then a clear renunciation of — who else — the president.
    — New York Times, 27 Apr. 2018
  • Velu removed her gold earrings — an act of quiet renunciation in Tamil culture — and sent her home.
    — Longreads, 22 May 2018
  • Some say that my renunciation of English could be disastrous, that my escape could lead me into a trap.
    — Sigrid Nunez, The New York Review of Books, 11 May 2021
  • Democrats flipped more than a dozen seats in the November election, claiming the results as a renunciation of President Trump.
    — John Bacon, USA TODAY, 10 Jan. 2018
  • In Sikhism, the ideal life of a person is neither abstinence nor renunciation, but rather a balanced life.
    — Alexandra MacOn, Vogue, 22 Sep. 2022
  • The Constitution calls for the renunciation of war, and Mr. Abe has long stated his desire to change it to allow Japan to strengthen its military.
    — Motoko Rich, New York Times, 21 July 2019
  • To some Jews, the president’s attacks on the congresswomen are a fierce renunciation of anti-Semitism and a defense of Israel.
    — Lisa Lerer, BostonGlobe.com, 17 Aug. 2019
  • His life began to take shape as a series of bold strokes and renunciations, chosen at least in part for their symbolic significance.
    — Dan Chiasson, The New Yorker, 20 Mar. 2017
  • With Bob, there is a kind of ascetic renunciation in his suffering that borders on the spiritual.
    — New York Times, 25 May 2022
  • Its creation is meant to be a renunciation of everything Europeans have done wrong.
    — James Kirchick, Slate Magazine, 11 Apr. 2017
  • The issue was whether one was free to achieve personal salvation by meritorious acts or renunciations or through the good offices of the church.
    — Marilynne Robinson, New Republic, 12 Dec. 2017
  • In South Korea and beyond, Ukraine’s renunciation of its nuclear arsenal three decades ago is seen by some as a mistake that left it open to invasion.
    — New York Times, 1 June 2022
  • In the mid-1980s, Mandela rejected offers to go free in exchange for a renunciation of violence.
    — Washington Post, 10 Feb. 2020
  • Both say that the divorce has nothing to do with their renunciation of Scientology.
    — Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker, 9 Aug. 2021
  • Philosophical knowledge can grant us serenity and insight, while asceticism and the renunciation of desire may free us from bondage to the Will and lead us to a peaceful Nirvana.
    — Washington Post, 13 Jan. 2021
  • The madness of King Mohammed could give way to something else: a slow and graceful renunciation of power—or, as with Assad, an ever more violent exercise of it.
    — Graeme Wood, The Atlantic, 3 Mar. 2022
  • What if Per’s final renunciation is a narrative false flag?
    — James Wood, The New Yorker, 14 Oct. 2019
  • For priests, this is the foundation of the necessity of celibacy but also of liturgical prayer, meditation on the Word of God and the renunciation of material goods.
    — Washington Post, 13 Jan. 2020
  • The only way out of this is a recognition of our own fallibility and a renunciation of our will to power—in other words, the only way to stop fighting is to stop fighting, and that means addresses our desire to fight in the first place.
    — Quora, Forbes, 29 June 2021
  • The laws were largely seen as a first step by Mr. Abe to expand the country’s military power and, eventually, overturn the clause in the country’s postwar Constitution that calls for the complete renunciation of war.
    — Motoko Rich, New York Times, 1 May 2017
  • But, for a family that has invested so much in burnishing its reputation in the art world, the symbolic renunciation must sting.
    — Patrick Radden Keefe, The New Yorker, 10 Dec. 2021
  • Information on what’s happening in the camps is sparse, but reports of prison-like conditions, forced pledges to the Chinese Communist Party, and renunciation of Islam have emerged.
    — Mike Murphy, Quartz, 6 Sep. 2019
  • Or is its renunciation its own kind of aesthetic and political choice?
    — Mattie Kahn, ELLE, 13 June 2023

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