Such an expression of feeling gives the character of action to renouncement and even to negation itself, for it is a strong affirmation of the will.
Indy finishes with the renouncement of a Christian, and Herr Richard Strauss by a proud and joyous affirmation of independence.
Strauss was too advanced in the composition of his work to escape the neo-Christian renouncement which had to finish the drama; he could only have avoided that by completely remodelling his characters.
Because, if I practise renouncement it is only from dread of hell-fire, and if I keep patient it is only because I hope to enter Paradise.
Alas," answered Hasan, "my renouncementof the world and my patience count as nothing.
His love for her appeared not only as a part of his love for God, but as a part, also, of his sorrows, his bitter patience, his renouncement and of the compassion which had sprung from the agony and the enlightenment of his failure.
An allusion, presumably, to the renouncement of wine made by Babur and some of his followers in 933 AH.
This line shews that Babur's renouncement was of wine only; he continued to eat confections (ma'jun).
The Renaissance held in horror the tonsured and hooded Dark Ages, whose spirit wasrenouncement and mortification.
But the stress of the whole strange seizure, wrench and renouncement had told on him mentally and physically.
The strength of his renouncement was so rooted that he felt no personal fear, and for her, too, he no longer felt fear in his nearness.
This intention of material renouncementhad not been imagined in the first instance by Penelope--the Robinson fortune had cost her so little and had been hers so long!
Still she had a good excuse, and one she could offer even to herself, namely, that all manner of material matters had to be settled between them, especially concerning her renouncement of the Robinson fortune.
The said renouncement or cession includes all those documents which exclusively refer to said renounced or ceded sovereignty which exist in the archives of the peninsula.
As the end came nearer his thoughts were drawn away from earth, and true to the last to his Lady Poverty, he caused himself to be laid naked on the ground as a token of his complete renouncement of the world.
Let us not look to renouncement for happiness till we have sought it elsewhere in vain.
And he who is bent on renouncement had best, first of all, forswear the delights of pride, for these are wholly vain and wholly deceptive.
The supreme endeavour of wisdom is only to seek in life for the fixed point of happiness; but to seek this fixed point in renouncement and farewell to joy, is only to seek it in death.
There is nothing sweeter than the return of joy that follows the renouncement of joy, as there is nothing more exquisite, of keener, deeper delight, than the enchantment of the disenchanted.
Positive unbelief is either a refusal or a renouncement of faith.
Cases of Scandal and Renouncement of Church Goods.
And his renouncement is truly the more heroic, because he has within his grasp all the delights and enchantments of soul, mind and senses, and possesses the incredible courage to refuse them all.
Well, my dear Louis, I defy you to cite me a monastic order whose members practice the renouncement of worldly pleasures more absolutely and sincerely than the miser.
The first is the renouncement of riches and worldly honors; the second is the renouncement of profane desires.
He held up his blurred eyes and torn, bleeding lips, and she kissed him as one might kiss the dead, in exquisite renouncement and farewell.
Is it not a distinct renouncement of the agricultural interest, and a setting up of the manufacturing interest instead?
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "renouncement" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
