abjuration
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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
On the scaffold's spacious platform Joan is to appear, surrounded by the ecclesiastics, and make a public abjuration.
From The Executioner's Knife Or Joan of Arc by Sue, Eug?ne
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
The National Covenant of 1637 was an amplification of the previous Confessions, containing in addition an abjuration of Episcopal Church-government, as the King's Confession did of Popery.
From Sir Thomas Urquhart of Cromartie, Knight by Willcock, John
His abjuration was read to him; he acknowledged it; he said it had been extorted by the dread of fire.
From A History of The Inquisition of The Middle Ages; volume II by Lea, Henry Charles
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jur, jus, List 1
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