abjuration

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 John Alberger

More straightforward and frank in his projects, moreover, convinced of the success of his plan, the Bishop sums up the deliberation and absolutely opposes the idea of attempting a second abjuration.

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

From his Catharan bishop he received absolution for his oath of abjuration, and was received back into the sect.

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

But while one part of the mob is enraged at the Maid's abjuration and the Bishop's pardon, another, consisting of the people who pity Joan, is thrown into consternation.

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

He escaped the massacre of St Bartholomew on the 24th of August by a feigned abjuration.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 3 "Helmont, Jean" to "Hernosand" by Various