renunciation
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Every state is different but you’ll most likely need to file a Renunciation of Nominated Executor form to the court system in the county in which your parents reside.
From Slate • Nov. 11, 2022
To make it easier to pray at his tomb, the Vatican ordered Carlo’s body to be exhumed last year and reburied at the Shrine of Renunciation at the Church of St. Mary Major in Assisi.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 28, 2020
Think of the Great Masculine Renunciation, the term coined by the psychoanalyst John Carl Flügel to denote a general eschewing of extravagance in male dress at the turn of the 19th century.
From New York Times • Sep. 10, 2014
I enjoyed the word play here, and of all his names, "Sameold Goodold" and "Hankernot Renunciation" appealed.
From The Guardian • Jul. 12, 2011
Renunciation of Colonial military expeditions; and in the present Colonies or Protectorates, withdrawn from the influence of missionaries and the military régime, development of institutions to protect the natives.
From Socialism and Democracy in Europe by Orth, Samuel P.
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