abjuration

No, it wasn’t anything at all about how lovely free markets are, nothing to do with how we must all bow down to the capitalist plutocrats and not even an abjuration to avoid socialism.

But when their popularity spawned numerous soft-core imitations, he revised his opinion again and published an “abjuration” of the trilogy.

Many of the heretics were obstinate and were burned, while others saved their lives by abjuration.

Obstinate heretics, refusing to abjure and return to the Church with due penance, and those who after abjuration relapsed, were to be abandoned to the secular arm for fitting punishment.

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.