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"Renounce" in a Sentence (18 examples)
Joan of Arc refused to renounce her belief that the voice she heard was from God and none other.
I do plainly and ingenuously confess that I am guilty of corruption, and do renounce all defense. I beseech your Lordships to be merciful to a broken reed.
Everybody knows the line “The boy didn't crack under interrogation”, but nowadays many people don’t know the continuation: it is a verse about a boy who died, having refused to renounce his Komsomol membership.
Instead of being esteemed for these discoveries, he was sentenced to renounce them, or the opinions resulting from them, as a damnable heresy.
She wanted to renounce her U.S. citizenship.
Experience is a revelation in the light of which we renounce our errors of youth for those of age.
I will never wed man without the consent of my parents, yet neither force nor persuasion shall dispose of my hand till you renounce the right I have given you to it.
I renounce everything as long as I can be with you.
In Nagasaki Sunday, Pope Francis called on political leaders to renounce nuclear weapons and abandon the arms race.
Between the 15th and the 17th century, thousands of Spanish Muslims and Jews were forced to renounce their religions.
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to renounce a title to land or to a throne
It is terrible to think of the power of the world even in a redeemed soul. Here was a maid who had drunk of the well of grace and tasted of God's mercies, and yet there were moments when she was ready to renounce her hope.
This world I do renounce, and in your sights Shake patiently my great affliction off.
[…] some families renounced the use of a certain praenomen which had been disgraced by one of their name […]
His son Sidhartha had renounced material life and gone forth in search of enlightment. He received enlightment under a Bodhi tree at Gaya and became Buddha. Ashoka visited Gaya along with Upagupta and had darshan of Sambodhi.
Time is running out, so I renounce a spin on a Class 387 for a fast run to Paddington on another Class 800 - a shame as the weather was perfect for pictures. Even so, it's enjoyable - boy, can those trains shift under the wires.
He of my sons who fails to make it good, / By one rebellious act renounces to my blood.
Dryden died without a will, and his widow having renounced, his son Charles administered on June 10.
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