renunciation
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But Indian authorities have refused to accept this in place of a renunciation certificate, forcing the sisters to move court.
From BBC • Sep. 1, 2025
Humanity could recover its moral bearings and pursue the abolition of nuclear weapons and the renunciation of war, or accept the inevitability that such man-made forces would ultimately abolish most or all of us.
From Salon • Aug. 14, 2025
A patchwork of statutes and treaties already offered about two-thirds of Native Americans citizenship, sometimes in exchange for land allotments that fractured reservations, gestures of assimilation, military service and even the renunciation of tribal traditions.
From Seattle Times • Jun. 1, 2024
Her devotion to him required renunciation: She let go of her composing ambitions and gave over the majority of her schedule to performing his scores.
From New York Times • Mar. 13, 2024
Her answer was also, of course, a means of renunciation, itself a denial of everything else I wasn’t offering.
From "Native Speaker" by Chang-rae Lee
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