The ritual required that the renunciant remove all the external signs of his caste and throw the utensils used in sacrifice into the fire.    From Wordnik.com.  [Buddha]

In contrast to the ideal of the renunciant so central to Jain and Buddhist traditions, Manu provides a paradigm for a human life lived in deep engagement with the world.    From Wordnik.com.  ['Birkin' Yoga] Reference

Looking up, I saw an old man wrapped in the orange robes of a renunciant.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Telegram: Local News] Reference

II, 9 ftiq. lEtoYis & Acha-is Romani per legatos renunciant vifto - riam fuam de lilyriis, & pa - ccm gls datam.    From Wordnik.com.  [Historiarum quidquid superest;] Reference

They cannot believe that this love from the infinite distance wields as mighty a force over renunciant lives as the near flame of passion over their own.    From Wordnik.com.  [Apologia Diffidentis] Reference

The abstract philosophy of the One might seem indeed to have been translated into the terms of a human will in the rigid, disinterested, renunciant career of the emperor Marcus Aurelius, its mortal coldness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Plato and Platonism] Reference

The instinct of destruction is essentially connected with the instinct of creation and indeed must be regarded as an indirect expression of that instinct; for, as one can clearly understand, almost every creative undertaking implies some kind of destructive or at least some kind of suppressive or renunciant act which renders such an undertaking possible.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Complex Vision] Reference

There was here a veritable consecration, hopeful and animating, of the earth's gifts, of old dead and dark matter itself, now in some way redeemed at last, of all that we can touch or see, in the midst of a jaded world that had lost the true sense of such things, and in strong contrast to the wise emperor's renunciant and impassive attitude towards them.    From Wordnik.com.  [Marius the Epicurean — Volume 2] Reference

Robert seems fated to a renunciant career -- colourless, self-annihilating. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [Robert Orange Being a Continuation of the History of Robert Orange] Reference