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Definition of renouncing : of Renounce

Synonyms:

betraying, crossing, backsliding, abnegating, denying, retracting, disavowing

disdaining, disagreeing, disinclining, refusing, repulsing, declining

discontinuing, ceasing, rejecting, retiring, terminating, accepting

leaving, letting go, canceling, discarding, dropping, casting off, jettisoning, disposing, dismissing, relegating, dispelling, ridding, venting, parting with

contradicting, overturning, disproving, inverting, disputing, effacing, reversing, negating, invalidating, nullifying, checking, counterbalancing, disaffirming

disowning, quitting, abdicating, shedding, surrendering, releasing, disclaiming, giving up, waiving, capitulating, forgoing, relinquishing, vacating, deserting, resigning, withdrawing, defecting, abandoning, forsaking

disqualifying, banning, barring, amputating, blackballing, evicting, disallowing, expelling, deporting, disbarring, expatriating, eliminating, excommunicating, excising, extraditing, blacklisting, removing, exiling, proscribing, forbidding, eradicating, prohibiting, excluding, ousting, boycotting, ostracizing, ejecting, banishing, repudiating, ignoring

condemning, admonishing, defaming, discrediting, disapproving, deriding, censuring, deprecating, disparaging, castigating, blaming, criticizing, scorning, chiding, upbraiding, denigrating, reproaching, vilifying, chastening, chastising, defiling, denouncing

Usage examples:

• The truth is that he suffered cruelly after renouncing his studies and seeing himself condemned to a life of manual labor. - "The Waif of the "Cynthia"", André Laurie and Jules Verne.
• Renouncing an extensive legal practice which had been yielding him an annual income of more than $ 20, 000, the Mahatma dispersed all his wealth to the poor. - "Autobiography of a YOGI", Paramhansa Yogananda.
• They had not understood then, but now they knew it was her way of renouncing the happy school days which she must give up because of her father's illness; and they were ashamed of their indifference. - "Tabitha's Vacation", Ruth Alberta Brown.