Renouncing their pride, they were obliged to supplicate from Barca Gana a handful of corn to keep them from starving.
He lived in the same house as the person who had been his master, and who, upon his renouncing his religion, gave him his liberty.
Among the humble-bees, for instance, the workers do not dream of renouncing love, whereas our domestic bee lives in a state of perpetual chastity.
There was a story that her betrothed seeing her living during the trial in company with bad women, had abandoned his demand for justice, renouncing a bride of such bad repute.
When this pious desire had been made known to him, Saint Remi taught the King and his subjects that, renouncing Satan and his pomps and his works, they must believe in God and in Jesus Christ his Son.
In accepting passion and renouncing the counsels of cautious prudence the youth and the girl are really sacrificing their chances of selfish happiness and fulfilling the larger ends of Nature.
Two graduates of Teng-chou College remained for weary weeks in a filthy dungeon when they might have purchased freedom at any moment by renouncing Christianity.
By renouncing my engagement as English master in Mdlle.
Surely they cannot add to their present political strength by renouncing securities and dignities which they now enjoy in the national copartnership.
We see him voluntarily renouncing a high professional office under the crown to take his place in the forum as a private citizen, to oppose, without reward, the odious violations of the liberties of the people by means of Writs of Assistance.
It would not be hard to renounce the world if we had as much certainty as these hermits obtain in their pleasures to inspire them in renouncing the vanities of life.
The believer does not relish the idea of renouncing life for the sake of death.
Degraded, banished, proscribed, the six brothers, in disguise and danger, wandered over Europe without renouncing the hope of deliverance and revenge.
The vigor of opposition was succeeded by the lassitude of despair: the council of Basil was silently dissolved; and Felix, renouncing the tiara, again withdrew to the devout or delicious hermitage of Ripaille.
Then comes the act of renouncing the Evil One and all his works, in the baby's name.
Renouncing all claim to universality and necessity in his results, he is content to have brought out that which has an approximative truth, and the highest degree of probability.
Aubecourt; nevertheless, however great might be her desire to oblige him, she did not consider herself justified in renouncing her intention.
Such possibility would at least infuse spirit into the soldiers; while the restoration was now proposed without the terrible condition which had before accompanied it, of renouncing the democratical constitution.
And indeed he was incapable ofrenouncing any wish or a plan, even if he felt inclined to do so.
Separate States, renouncing local pretensions, became greater still as parts of the great whole, and Italy stood forth a Nation, to testify against the intolerable jargon of State pretensions.
That self-renouncing wisdom, learn'd before, Had shed immortal glories on your brow, That all your virtues cannot purchase now.
I suppose there was happiness in sacrificing her position, her future, and renouncing society forever.
And what a world, where we have no safety except inrenouncing it!
It recalls a frequently recurring situation in her novels, particularly that touching one of the self-renouncing devotion with which the ardent Romola throws herself into her afflicted father's learned and recondite pursuits.
Sight of it brought to her mind the fact that in renouncing her position she must also renounce that mark of her Imperial birth.
Those royal tiaras as Crown Princess she placed in their cases and put them away with a sigh, for she knew she was renouncing her crown for ever.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "renouncing" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
