abjuration

[ ab-juh-rey-shuhn ]

noun

1. the act of abjuring.
2. renunciation upon oath.

Other Words From

• nonab·ju·ration noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of abjuration¹

1505–15; < Medieval Latin abjūrātiōn- (stem of abjūrātiō ); abjure, -ate ¹, -ion

Example Sentences

No, it wasn’t anything at all about how lovely free markets are, nothing to do with how we must all bow down to the capitalist plutocrats and not even an abjuration to avoid socialism.

From Forbes

But when their popularity spawned numerous soft-core imitations, he revised his opinion again and published an “abjuration” of the trilogy.

From New York Times

Many of the heretics were obstinate and were burned, while others saved their lives by abjuration.

From Project Gutenberg

Obstinate heretics, refusing to abjure and return to the Church with due penance, and those who after abjuration relapsed, were to be abandoned to the secular arm for fitting punishment.

From Project Gutenberg

He was appointed librarian of the Vatican by Innocent X., and was sent to Innsbruck by Alexander VII. to receive Queen Christina’s abjuration of Protestantism.

From Project Gutenberg