abjuration

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This was not a strictly formal abjuration such as was customarily required of prisoners of the Inquisition, yet it might have sufficed.

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

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

If this were duly attended to, he could always be handed over to the secular arm without a hearing in case of relapse, except when the abjuration had been for light suspicion.

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

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

Denial, as we have seen, was obduracy, punished by the stake, and confession was a condition precedent to admission to abjuration.

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