renunciation
Americannoun
noun
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the act or an instance of renouncing
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a formal declaration renouncing something
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stock exchange the surrender to another of the rights to buy new shares in a rights issue
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Etymology
Origin of renunciation
1350–1400; Middle English < Latin renūnciātiōn- (stem of renūnciātiō ) proclamation, equivalent to renūnciāt ( us ) (past participle of renūntiāre to renounce ) + -iōn- -ion
Explanation
If you reject something or disown it, you can call this renunciation. Sorry, your renunciation of your membership in the American Association of Retired People will not make you any younger. Use the noun renunciation especially when you mean you have given up your religious or political beliefs or some cause you previously supported. When you drop a political party to become an independent, you mean it to be a renunciation of all the infighting, backstabbing, and finger pointing that have become "politics as usual."
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Example Sentences
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The lower fee for renouncing citizenship “may remove a symbolic administrative barrier to renunciation, but it does not change the core financial analysis,” Concepción said.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 17, 2026
According to Pakistan's rules, people under the age of 21 cannot renounce their citizenship independently, but their names can be included in the renunciation application filed by their father.
From BBC ● Sep. 1, 2025
Humanity could recover its moral bearings and pursue the abolition of nuclear weapons and the renunciation of war, or accept the inevitability that such man-made forces would ultimately abolish most or all of us.
From Salon ● Aug. 14, 2025
A patchwork of statutes and treaties already offered about two-thirds of Native Americans citizenship, sometimes in exchange for land allotments that fractured reservations, gestures of assimilation, military service and even the renunciation of tribal traditions.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 1, 2024
It was well for him, with his chivalry and mysticism and all the compensations of the male world, to make the grand renunciation.
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
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