renouncement

noun

Definition of renouncementnext
as in refusal
the act or practice of giving up or rejecting something once enjoyed or desired her renouncement of chocolate had a lot to do with the fact that it was causing her skin to break out

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  1. refusal
  2. renunciation
  3. denial
  4. abnegation
Noun
  • Martinez’s refusal to take out the loan led in part to his pending ouster, as the current seven-member board moved to fire him without cause in late December.
    Nell Salzman, Chicago Tribune, 7 Jan. 2025
  • On January 6, 2021, a group of violent rioters, stoked by Donald Trump’s refusal to accept his recent defeat, stormed the U.S. Capitol in an attempt to overturn the 2020 presidential election, delaying the ceremonial Electoral College vote count.
    Savannah Kuchar, USA TODAY, 5 Jan. 2025
Definition of refusal
Noun
  • So the practice of love turns on a renunciation of control.
    Sean Illing, Vox, 9 Dec. 2024
  • Syria The large question hanging over our Syria policy is whether the rebel group chiefly responsible for toppling the Assad regime, Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, or Organization for the Liberation of the Levant, is sincere in its renunciation of terrorism and Taliban-style Islamism.
    Bret Stephens, The Mercury News, 12 Dec. 2024
Definition of renunciation
Noun
  • What To Know About Chris Wright Chris Wright, CEO of Liberty Energy and Donald Trump's nominee for energy secretary, has faced criticism for his outspoken denial of the climate crisis and for Liberty Energy's involvement in a racial bias lawsuit, which was settled with federal authorities in 2024.
    John Mac Ghlionn, Newsweek, 13 Jan. 2025
  • But, as Hurston must have understood on some level, there was little chance that Hollywood would touch her book, because the key move in her revision of Biblical history was the denial of the divinity of Jesus.
    Louis Menand, The New Yorker, 13 Jan. 2025
Definition of denial
Noun
  • The feats, the ecstasies, the prostrations and abnegations.
    James Parker, The Atlantic, 10 Jan. 2025
  • The explicit and quasi-religious abnegation of the right to violent self-defense put the national committee at odds with one of its key allies during the Saturday march: Black Lives Matter.
    Samantha Eyler, Foreign Affairs, 31 Jan. 2017
Definition of abnegation
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