abjuration

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In making the abjuration it will not be he that condemns truth, but the council; as for perjury, if perjury there be, it will fall on the heads of those who exact it.

From A History of The Inquisition of The Middle Ages; volume II by Lea, Henry Charles

The obstacle in the way of Huss’s abjuration lay not so much in the heresies which he had taught, as in those which he had not taught.

From A History of The Inquisition of The Middle Ages; volume II by Lea, Henry Charles

I was really in the designated church on the designated day, and I did there undergo a religious ceremony; but this ceremony was no hateful abjuration, but a very innocent conjugation.

From The Prose Writings of Heinrich Heine by Heine, Heinrich

The importance attached to the abjuration is illustrated by a case in the Inquisition of Toulouse in 1310.

From A History of The Inquisition of The Middle Ages; volume I by Lea, Henry Charles

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 Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 5 "Hinduism" to "Home, Earls of" by Various