abjuration

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After abjuration, he was duly absolved and condemned to degradation from holy orders and imprisonment for life, in chains and on bread and water, in the inquisitorial prison of Carcassonne.

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

John Russell introduced a motion that the House should resolve itself into a committee to consider the mode of administering the oath of abjuration to persons professing the Jewish religion.

From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol III, No 13, 1851 by Various

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

On the second day after the abjuration, the patient is out of danger.

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

Much to her merit, in the eyes of Gregory, arose from her abjuration of Arianism, and the patronage she extended to religious houses.

From Notes and Queries, Vol. IV, Number 95, August 23, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by Various