Joan relented and signed an abjuration in which she admitted her crimes. From LearnThat.org. [http://www.sparknotes.com/biography/joanofarc/section10.rhtml]
The solemn abjuration which is now proposed in the name of Neo-conservatism resembles a charge of dynamite. From Wordnik.com. [The Contemporary Review, January 1883 Vol 43, No. 1] Reference
Jeanne realised now what her "abjuration" had really meant. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of Rouen] Reference
One of the consequences of her "abjuration" was that she was wearing woman's dress that very afternoon. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of Rouen] Reference
"I request abjuration, master," he muttered dully. From Wordnik.com. [The End of The Matter]
The words of the "oath of abjuration" were as follows. From Wordnik.com. [Is Ulster Right?] Reference
Galileo was made to recite and sign a formal abjuration. From Wordnik.com. [Galileo Galilei] Reference
The only constant: the abjuration of personal responsibility. From Wordnik.com. [Son of a Witch]
Modena, together with an oath of abjuration of the "Pretender.". From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745 Volume II.] Reference
News of this abjuration having spread abroad, it reached Sieur de. From Wordnik.com. [Celebrated Claimants from Perkin Warbeck to Arthur Orton] Reference
Solemn abjuration, shame, and misery will accompany this reaction. From Wordnik.com. [Caught in the Crossfire: Adrian Scott and the Politics of Americanism in 1940s Hollywood] Reference
But that was an abjuration which, as they well knew, they were powerless to extort. From Wordnik.com. [Swann's Way] Reference
The Herald then drew near, and read to him from the Black Book the form of abjuration. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 1, January, 1864] Reference
And magic item crafting, and a very little bit of abjuration, illusion, and conjuration. From Wordnik.com. [4e PHB Readthrough – Chapter 10: Rituals « Geek Related] Reference
'The ceremony of Galileo's abjuration was one of exciting interest and of awful formality. From Wordnik.com. [The Astronomy of Milton's 'Paradise Lost'] Reference
"All is ready for his abjuration at the moment of your death," continued the Queen-mother. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 363, January, 1846] Reference
You pass through the utilitarian ugliness, the abjuration of all elegance that is Penn Station. From Wordnik.com. [What the World Sees in America] Reference
The sine qua non of science, what is required of every scientist, is the abjuration of an a priori approach. From Wordnik.com. [Intelligently designed confusion - The Panda's Thumb] Reference
Philosophy, should before their deaths have both made confessions which really amount to an abjuration of all Agnosticism. From Wordnik.com. [Philosophy and Religion Six Lectures Delivered at Cambridge] Reference
Which is why, if this is how our masters intend to do business from now on, our abjuration of revolution might yet change. From Wordnik.com. [American Democracy or European Oligarchy?] Reference
Rosa Luxemburg, who agreed with Lenin about many issues, split with him over this, his anti-Marxian abjuration of democracy. From Wordnik.com. [Communist Economic Policy: Stalinism or the Red Army?, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty] Reference
Yet as other tortures, no less it may be thought, attended the non-abjuration of such a tyrant, a choice only of evils was left; and. From Wordnik.com. [The Opium Habit] Reference
MacCartie, has taken the oaths of abjuration; and later, when released, he seems to have been disturbed at the large number of German. From Wordnik.com. [The Reminiscences of an Irish Land Agent] Reference
The first measure ought, therefore, to be an address to the nation, pronouncing, in the clearest language, an utter abjuration of all local seizure. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 54, No. 338, December 1843] Reference
In his act of abjuration he took the name of André d'Entrevergues, the son of Scipio d'Entrevergues, Sieur de Caille, and of Madame Susanne de Caille, his wife. From Wordnik.com. [Celebrated Claimants from Perkin Warbeck to Arthur Orton] Reference
Benedict XIV., who, immediately after the abjuration of my pupil got him. From Wordnik.com. [The Complete Memoirs of Jacques Casanova] Reference
The republic existed, in fact, from the moment of the abjuration in 1581. From Wordnik.com. [PG Edition of Netherlands series — Complete] Reference
After the abjuration of Philip, the governors were appointed by the Estates of each Province. From Wordnik.com. [PG Edition of Netherlands series — Complete] Reference
He had been the first to propose and to draw up the declaration of Netherland independence and the abjuration of the King of. From Wordnik.com. [PG Edition of Netherlands series — Complete] Reference
This arrangement was finally accomplished upon the 24th of July, 1581, and the act of abjuration took place two days afterwards. From Wordnik.com. [PG Edition of Netherlands series — Complete] Reference
Alphonso Mendez, the Catholic patriarch of Aethiopia, accepted, in the name of Urban VIII., the homage and abjuration of the penitent. From Wordnik.com. [History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 4] Reference
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