1. renunciation

noun. ['rɪˌnənsiːˈeɪʃən'] rejecting or disowning or disclaiming as invalid.

Rhymes with Renunciation

• deinstitutionalization
• institutionalization
• self-congratulation
• antidiscrimination
• telecommunication
• nondiscrimination
• misrepresentation
• mischaracterization
• internationalization
• industrialization
• decriminalization
• transillumination
• self-determination
• renationalization
• recapitalization
• prestidigitation
• misinterpretation
• misidentification
• miscommunication
• experimentation
• excommunication
• disqualification
• discontinuation
• denationalization
• decentralization
• transplantation
• singularization
• self-perpetuation
• securitization
• reinterpretation

Sentences with renunciation

1. Noun, singular or mass
The first of these is the renunciation of secular life.

Quotes about renunciation

1. We can never judge the lives of others, because each person knows only their own pain and renunciation. It's one thing to feel that you are on the right path, but it's another to think that yours is the only path.
- Paulo Coelho

2. We can never judge the lives of others, because each person knows only their own pain and renunciation.
- Paulo Coelho, By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept

3. Her future, she thought, was likely to be worse than her past, for after her years of contented renunciation, she had slipped back into desire and longing; she found joyless days of distasteful occupation harder and harder; she found the image of the intense and varied life she yearned for, and despaired of, becoming more and more importunate.
- George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss

2. self-renunciation

noun. renunciation of your own interests in favor of the interests of others.

3. renunciation

noun. ['rɪˌnənsiːˈeɪʃən'] an act (spoken or written) declaring that something is surrendered or disowned.

4. renunciation

noun. ['rɪˌnənsiːˈeɪʃən'] the state of having rejected your religious beliefs or your political party or a cause (often in favor of opposing beliefs or causes).

5. renunciation

noun. ['rɪˌnənsiːˈeɪʃən'] the act of renouncing; sacrificing or giving up or surrendering (a possession or right or title or privilege etc.).