different between renunciation vs renunciate

English

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Noun

renunciation (countable and uncountable, plural renunciations)

1. the act of rejecting or renouncing something as invalid

   The President's renunciation of the treaty has upset Congress.

   The life of the spirit demands readiness for renunciation when the occasion arises...

2. the resignation of an ecclesiastical office

   The bishop's renunciation was on account of his ill health.

3. (law) The act by which a person abandons a right acquired, but without transferring it to another.
4. (Christianity) In the Anglican baptismal service, the part in which the candidate in person or by his sureties renounces the Devil and all his works.

Related terms

• renouncement

Translations

See also

• abjurement
• repudiation

Further reading

• renunciation in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• renunciation in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

English

Adjective

renunciate (not comparable)

1. (rare) Of, pertaining to, or being a renunciate.

Synonyms

• (of a renunciate): renunciant

Noun

renunciate (plural renunciates)

1. One who has renounced.

Synonyms

• (one who has renounced): renunciant

Related terms

• renounce
• renunciant
• renunciation

Latin

Verb

ren?nci?te

1. second-person plural present active imperative of ren?nci?