renouncement

[English renounce; -ment.] The act of renouncing, disclaiming, or abjuring; renunciation. "I hold you as a thing enskied and sainted; By your renouncement, an immortal spirit." Shakesp.: Measure for Measure, i. 5. re-noung-er, s. [Eng. renounc(e); -er.] One who renounces, disclaims, or abjures. "An apostate, and renouncer or blasphemer of religion." -Wilkins: Natural Religion , bk. i., ch. xiv. re-nounç'-Ing, pr . par . or a . [RENOUNCE, v.] *re-nounç'-Ing-ly, adv . [Eng. renouncing ; -ly .] With renunciations or disclaimers. "Willing to spend and be spent self-renouncingly." Victoria Magazine , Nov., 1866, p. 93. *ren-o-vant, adj . [Lat. renovans (gen it. reno vant is), pr. par. of renovo = to renovate (q. v.).] Renovating, renewing. ( Cowel .) ren-o-vāte, v . t . [Latin reno vatus , pa. par. of renovo to renew; re -again, and nov us =new.] 1. To renew: to make new again; to restore to a state of freshne or vigor; to repair. IMG:content-0451.png:[blocks in formation] rěn-o-va-tion, s . [Fr., from Lat. renovationem , acc us. of renovatio , from reno vatus , pa. par, of ren ovo=to renovate (q.v.); Sp. reno vac i on ; Italian rinovazione.] The act or proce of renovating; a making new or fresh again; a restoring to a former state of freshne or vigor; renewal; the state of being renovated or restored to a former state of freshne or vigor. rěn-o-vat-ör, s . [RENOVATER.] *re-no-ve-launce, s . [O. Fr.) A renewing. "And also mo reno vela unces Of old forleten a queint a unces." Chaucer: House of Fame, ii. *re-no-velle, *re-no-vele, v. t . & i. [Fr. renou veler.] A. Transitive: To make new again; to renew, to restore. B. In trans.: To become renewed; to revive. "Ones a yere all thinges in the erthe renovelen." Chaucer: Per sones Tale.