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 requires psychological analysis.    From Wordnik.com.  [Digging James] Reference

‘I have nothing more to say,’ returned Mrs Wilfer, with a meek renunciatory action of her gloves.    From Wordnik.com.  [Our Mutual Friend] Reference

Russians near and far questioned the contradiction between Tolstoy's renunciatory teachings and the privileged, aristocratic lifestyle he refused to abandon.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Road to the Stationmaster's House] Reference

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 rights over the territory they had yielded to one another.    From Wordnik.com.  [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria"] Reference

Love of the second kind — renunciatory love — consists in a yearning to undergo self-sacrifice for the object beloved, regardless of any consideration whether such self-sacrifice will benefit or injure the object in question.    From Wordnik.com.  [Youth] Reference

The place would be near ruin by the time it came his way, in midlife, but he was still glad to turn it over to his addled younger brother — the sort of renunciatory gesture Isherwood had been making toward hierarchical, heterosexual England ever since public school.    From Wordnik.com.  [Darling Me] Reference

'I have nothing more to say,' returned Mrs Wilfer, with a meek renunciatory action of her gloves.    From Wordnik.com.  [Our Mutual Friend] Reference

Martie treasured his letter with burning, secret pride, and with perhaps a faint, renunciatory pang.    From Wordnik.com.  [Martie, the Unconquered] Reference

The Riksdag, according to its custom, sought at the opening of the reign to impose upon the new sovereign a renunciatory coronation oath.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Governments of Europe] Reference

Clothes -- ten years old in cut -- scissors, razors, hats, shoes, all his discarded attire and belongings, were dragged ruthlessly from their renunciatory rest and strewn about in painful disorder.    From Wordnik.com.  [Options] Reference

Love of the second kind -- renunciatory love -- consists in a yearning to undergo self-sacrifice for the object beloved, regardless of any consideration whether such self-sacrifice will benefit or injure the object in question.    From Wordnik.com.  [Youth] Reference

Elizabeth-Jane discovered to her alarm that her mother's health was not what it once had been, and there was ever and anon in her talk that renunciatory tone which showed that, but for the girl, she would not be very sorry to quit a life she was growing thoroughly weary of.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mayor of Casterbridge] Reference

They argued back and forth, not violently, but vividly, and one whom I admired most enforced his reasons with charming gesticulations, whirling from his opponents with quick turns of his body and many a renunciatory retirement, and then facing about and advancing again upon the unconvinced.    From Wordnik.com.  [Roman Holidays, and Others] Reference

And having delivered himself of this judgment Mr. Britling, a little surprised at the rapid vigour of his anger, once he had let it loose, came suddenly to an end of his words, made a renunciatory gesture with his arms, and as if struck with the idea, rushed out of her room and out of the house to where Gladys stood waiting.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mr. Britling Sees It Through] Reference

Claude epitomises how disastrous it is for a lover to see the other side of the question, and to remind himself of the advantages of not being in love: "Yet, at the worst of the worst, books and a chamber remain", a line which is an eerie pre-echo of Larkin's renunciatory "Poetry of Departures": "Books; china; a life / Reprehensibly perfect.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Books news, reviews and author interviews | guardian.co.uk] Reference

In particular, when a new American's "old country" refuses to recognize the US naturalization oath (with its renunciatory clause) as having any effect on its own citizenship laws - and insists that the person in question must continue to deal with his old country as a citizen thereof (e.g., by using that country's passport when travelling there to visit) - the.    From Wordnik.com.  [Latest Articles] Reference

It is an austere and renunciatory work.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Wife of Martin Guerre] Reference

Give up the renunciatory gesture.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mary Wollaston] Reference