abjuration

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Doubts, however, as to the genuineness of his abjuration again troubled the Kirk.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 8 "Hudson River" to "Hurstmonceaux" by Various

He escaped the massacre of St Bartholomew on the 24th of August by a feigned abjuration.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 3 "Helmont, Jean" to "Hernosand" by Various

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

As early as 1184 the Verona decree of Lucius III. provides that those who, after abjuration, relapse into the abjured heresy shall be delivered to the secular courts, without even the opportunity of being heard.

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

The obstacle in the way of Huss’s abjuration lay not so much in the heresies which he had taught, as in those which he had not taught.

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