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Example sentences for "abjuring"

Lexicographically close words:
abjectness; abjuration; abjure; abjured; abjures; ablation; ablative; ablaze; able; abler
  1. The reason why one of the acts was passed was the loss of the strength of the country by persons taking sanctuary and abjuring the realm, teaching foreigners archery, and also of disclosing the secrets of the realm.

  2. Cental are said to have purchased reconciliation by abjuring their faith.

  3. This is all his meaning in abjuring malice, and invoking charity.

  4. I will rest all my confidence in truth, truth unalloyed, abjuring every counterfeit and all hypocrisy.

  5. To make this social league invincible within, each member in the fellowship must show a true humility, abjuring all temptation or desire to be a despot or a grandee.

  6. She said that all she had thus done last Thursday in abjuring her visions and revelations she had done through fear of the stake, and that all her abjuration was contrary to the truth.

  7. Nor, though probably all would have assented at that time to an oath abjuring Charles Stuart, were they all without taint of the Single Person heresy in other forms.

  8. The first condition of reconciliation was confessing under oath that he was guilty of having held these errors and then abjuring them.

  9. Grabon was glad to escape by publicly abjuring some of his articles as heretical, others as erroneous, and others as scandalous and offensive to pious ears.

  10. Sidenote: Abjuring Mysticisms] We shall lead your interest away from "vague mysticisms" and emphasize such phases of scientific psychological theory as bear directly on practical achievement.

  11. By taking that oath, they have sworn and subscribed to a lie, making it as they represent it, abjuring it in so far as it declares, &c.

  12. It a subscribing to a lie, in abjuring a declaration, in so far as it did declare a thing, which it did not, if that hold.

  13. Yet all this complex iniquity is clearly comprehended in the oath of abjuration, in terms abjuring all war against the king.

  14. On other points the Parliament now acted more in accordance with the King's wishes, although the Whigs produced several embarrassing measures, and attempted to compel all place-holders to take an oath abjuring King James.

  15. Abjuring the idea of dialing the telephone number of their former home together, he did it nonetheless as if there were a chance that she would answer and tell him that her staged death had been a practical joke.

  16. All he had to do to appreciate it was to simply open his eyes by abjuring agenda and accomplishment and melting into true being.

  17. Many were the innocent at San Jacinto, whose cries, in broken Spanish, abjuring Goliad and the Alamo, could not save their devoted lives from the avenging remembrance of the slaughtered garrison and the massacred prisoners.

  18. Exhausted and broken with shame and suffering, he flung himself at his rival's feet and begged for mercy, abjuring and anathematizing his heresies, and especially that of the poverty of Christ.

  19. Then, abjuring the worship of idols, and renouncing his unlawful marriage, he embraced the faith of Christ, and being baptized, promoted the affairs of the Church to the utmost of his power.

  20. Omission to take the oath abjuring heresy imposed on all the inhabitants of Languedoc, within the term prescribed, was sufficient, or neglect to reveal heretics, or the possession of heretical books.

  21. The convert who was absolved on abjuring was also required to give security that he would not relapse.

  22. If her visions were genuine, if God inspired her, she covers herself with shame by abjuring out of fear of death!

  23. The effect of this measure was to reduce his Protestant subjects, amounting to about two millions, to the cruel alternative of abjuring their faith or quitting France for ever.

  24. But of this right he had deprived himself by abjuring this title and leaving it entirely to James.

  25. A Bill was next brought in to allow another year of grace to all who had not taken the oath abjuring the pretended Prince of Wales.

  26. While we witness the presumptuous priest pronouncing infallible the decrees of his own erring judgment, we see the high-minded philosopher abjuring the eternal and immutable truths which he had himself the glory of establishing.

  27. The Hilliad," has judiciously preserved the offending "Impertinent" and the abjuring "Inspector.

  28. He asks such poets if they would "Play the fool, Abjuring a superior privilege?


  29. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "abjuring" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.