renunciatory

Related to renunciatory: stirred up, reacquainted

re·nun·ci·a·tion

(rĭ-nŭn′sē-ā′shən)

1. The act or an instance of renouncing: the renunciation of all earthly pleasures.

2. A declaration in which something is renounced.

[Middle English, from Anglo-Norman renunciacion, from Latin renūntiātiō, renūntiātiōn-, from renūntiātus, past participle of renūntiāre, to renounce; see renounce.]

re·nun′ci·a′tive, re·nun′ci·a·to′ry (-ə-tôr′ē) adj.

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At last she sent me away with her soft, slow, renunciatory kiss.

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'I have nothing more to say,' returned Mrs Wilfer, with a meek renunciatory action of her gloves.

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On the renunciatory orders in Hinduism, Ghurye in his book Indian Sadhus writes that there are ten orders of ascetics (popularly known as Dasnamis) namely: Aryana, Asrama, Bharti, Giri, Parvata, Puri,Sarasvati, Sagara, Tirtha and Vana.

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How is the financing of religious affairs ideologically, performatively and administratively managed, when the topic of money is so symbolically charged in Thai discourses about renunciatory monastic asceticism?

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There is an implicit contrast in the poetry, Higgins believes, between Ipseity, an emphasis on the Incarnation and thus sacramentality, and Kenosis, an emphasis on emptying, on selving as "a renunciatory kind of becoming" (82).

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I attempt to expand what I see as narrow scholarly definitions of ahimsa that dwell exclusively upon the orthodox, renunciatory interpretation at the expense of more worldly formulations.

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John would profess--to himself--to be amazed that all that spiritual practice, the renunciatory mind-squeezing spine-freezing sitting meditation, had yielded nothing.

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What is achieved in The Wings of the Dove is a tragic, renunciatory act of moral rectitude on Densher's part.