Synonyms for renunciation
rɪˌnʌn siˈeɪ ʃən, -ʃi-re·nun·ci·a·tion

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1. renunciation

   Synonyms:
   rejection, repudiation, abjuration, abnegation, abandonment, cession, surrender

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1. repudiation, renunciationnoun

   rejecting or disowning or disclaiming as invalid

   "Congressional repudiation of the treaty that the President had negotiated"

   Synonyms:
   apostasy, forswearing, renouncement, debunking, repudiation, defection, forgoing

2. apostasy, renunciation, defectionnoun

   the state of having rejected your religious beliefs or your political party or a cause (often in favor of opposing beliefs or causes)

   Synonyms:
   tergiversation, desertion, apostasy, forswearing, renouncement, repudiation, defection, abandonment, forgoing

3. renunciation, renouncementnoun

   an act (spoken or written) declaring that something is surrendered or disowned

   Synonyms:
   defection, repudiation, forgoing, forswearing, apostasy, renouncement

4. renunciation, forgoing, forswearingnoun

   the act of renouncing; sacrificing or giving up or surrendering (a possession or right or title or privilege etc.)

   Synonyms:
   defection, repudiation, forgoing, forswearing, apostasy, renouncement

Matched Categories

1. • Rejection
   • Resignation

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1. renunciationnoun

   Synonyms:
   rejection, repudiation, abnegation, abjuration

2. renunciationnoun

   Synonyms:
   surrender, cession, abandonment, resignation

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1. renunciationnoun

   Synonyms:
   abjuration, denial, disownment, disclaimer, abnegation

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1. List of paraphrases for "renunciation":

   waiver, resignation, repudiation, renouncement, surrender, abandonment, disclaimer, relinquishment, abdication

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1. Whun Cheon:

   Kim Jong will never spell such words as' renunciation' or' elimination' of nukes, or returning to the Non-Proliferation Treaty as a non-nuclear weapons state.

2. Charles Cooley:

   When one has come to accept a certain course as duty he has a pleasant sense of relief and of lifted responsibility, even if the course involves pain and renunciation. It is like obedience to some external authority; any clear way, though it lead to death, is mentally preferable to the tangle of uncertainty.

3. Jean Jacques Rousseau:

   To renounce liberty is to renounce being a man, to surrender the rights of humanity and even its duties. For he who renounces everything no indemnity is possible. Such a renunciation is incompatible with man's nature to remove all liberty from his will is to remove all morality from his acts.