Renunciation

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

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

手打:托德

• Jesus had called men and women to a giant undertaking, to the renunciation of self, to the new birth into the kingdom of love. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• The wretched creature seemed to suffer acutely under this renunciation. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• But since providential indications demand a renunciation from me, I renounce. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• One by one she had detached herself from the baser possibilities, and she saw that nothing now remained to her but the emptiness of renunciation. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
• She entertained no visions of their ever coming into nearer union, and yet she had taken no posture of renunciation. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• Reason, judgment, renunciation, all the sane daylight forces, were beaten back in the sharp struggle for self-preservation. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.

编辑:沃尔夫冈