abjuration

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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.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 5 "Hinduism" to "Home, Earls of" by Various

In making the abjuration it will not be he that condemns truth, but the council; as for perjury, if perjury there be, it will fall on the heads of those who exact it.

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

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

Oath of abjuration, an oath asserting the right of the present royal family to the crown of England, and expressly abjuring allegiance to the descendants of the Pretender.

From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary by Webster, Noah

Sibylla, wife of Bernard Borell, had been forced to confession and abjuration in 1305.

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