abjuration

We may even get her to maintain that her abjuration was the result of a snare, a surprise.

From The Executioner's Knife Or Joan of Arc by Sue, Eug?ne

The vow of poverty embraced an unqualified abjuration of all right to acquire or hold individual property, but granted the privilege of owning property in a corporate capacity.

From Monks, Popes, and their Political Intrigues by Alberger, John

James Camus—"And before the abjuration, what did your voices say?"

From The Executioner's Knife Or Joan of Arc by Sue, Eug?ne

I have twice taken the oath of abjuration to the British king and government, and of Allegiance to America.

From The Life Of Thomas Paine, Vol. II. (of II) With A History of His Literary, Political and Religious Career in America France, and England by Conway, Moncure Daniel

Sigismund asked him why he could not renounce errors which he said had been ascribed to him through perjury, and Huss had to explain to him the technical meaning of abjuration.

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