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Of or relating to an act or instance of relinquishing, abandoning, repudiating, or sacrificing something, as a right, title, person, or ambition

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  • Densher is clearly a Jamesian standby, a stock "renunciatory" type, and his relation with Kate Croy is presented by James as a donné, not as anything problematical that...
  • ‘I have nothing more to say,’ returned Mrs Wilfer, with a meek renunciatory action of her gloves.
  • Russians near and far questioned the contradiction between Tolstoy's renunciatory teachings and the privileged, aristocratic lifestyle he refused to abandon.
  • At the same time were signed the special conditions relating to each important article of the treaty, and the renunciatory clauses in which the kings abandoned their...
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