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(law) The act of abalienating; alienation; estrangement; transferring a legal title.
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(law) The relinquishment of a right, claim, or privilege; relinquishment of right to secure a patent by an inventor; relinquishment of copyright by an author.
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(law) The action of a person that abates, or without proper authority enters a residence after the death of the owner and before the heir takes possession.
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(rare) Abdicating; renouncing.
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The act of abdicating; the renunciation of a high office, dignity, or trust, by its holder.
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(rare) Causing, or implying, abdication.
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A repudiation on oath of a religious or political principle.
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Alternative form of Oath of Abjuration [(historical) An oath asserting the right of the present royal family to the crown of England, and expressly abjuring allegiance to the descendants of Charles Edward Stuart, the Jacobite Pretender.]
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A solemn oath to leave and never return to the kingdom or realm.
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A denial; a renunciation; denial of desire or self-interest.
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The act of abolishing; an annulling; abrogation.
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(archaic) Absolute renunciation; repudiation; retraction.
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The act of abrogating; a repeal by authority; abolition.
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(ecclesiastical) An absolving of sins from ecclesiastical penalties by an authority.
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Conferring absolution; absolutory.
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Act of absolving; absolution.
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Of or pertaining to a dismissal or an acquittal.
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(civil law) Gratuitous discharge; a release from debt or obligation without payment; free remission.
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(obsolete) The act of sending someone away.
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(transitive, dialectal or obsolete) To excommunicate; interdict.
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An act of the sovereign power granting oblivion, or a general pardon, for a past offense, as to subjects concerned in an insurrection.
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(law) An invalidation of something, especially a legal contract.
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(law) A declaration by the promising party to a contract that he/she does not intend to live up to the contractual obligations.
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(obsolete) The act of taking away.
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(law, obsolete) The act of annulling; annulment.
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(US, law, transitive, intransitive) To invoke the Baker Act, i.e., the involuntary institutionalization and examination of an individual in the state of Florida, or (by extension) elsewhere in the United States.
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The abrogation of a law by a higher authority; annulment.
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A person who confiscates
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(obsolete) The act of yielding; surrender.
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(law, Scotland) To resist an officer of the law in the execution of his duty.
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(obsolete, UK, law) One who keeps out of possession the rightful owner of an estate.
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The formal removal of the rights and authority of a member of the clergy.
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(archaic) Resignation; abdication.
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A disownment or disavowal
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(archaic) A betrothing; betrothal
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Obsolete form of divorce. [The legal dissolution of a marriage.]
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Obsolete form of devoted.
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(law) Overthrow or annulment by the decision of a superior tribunal.
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(law) exemption from a legal requirement
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(law) The disqualification of a lawyer from membership in a bar association, usually as punishment for wrongdoing; the result of being disbarred.
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To renounce all claim to; to deny ownership of or responsibility for; to disown; to disavow; to reject.
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One who disclaims, disowns, or renounces.
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(law) One whose possession of an estate is broken off, or discontinued; one whose estate is subject to discontinuance.
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Termination of an agreement to be married.
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(law) The rejection of a legal proceeding, or a claim or charge made therein.
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Alternative form of dimissory [Granting permission to be ordained.]
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A ban on trade with another country.
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(obsolete) The act of buying.
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(UK, law, obsolete) An excuse for not appearing in court at the return of process; the allegation of an excuse to the court.
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The release of a monk (or nun) from their religious vows, and their subsequent return to the outside world.
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(obsolete) One who makes, or is authorized to make, an excuse; an apologist.
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The abandonment of an unwanted child.
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The act of expropriating; the surrender of a claim to private property; the act of depriving of private propriety rights.
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(law) The annihilation or extinction of a right or obligation.
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(transitive, rare, archaic, poetic or obsolete) To exile; banish.
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(obsolete) Synonym of banish
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(intransitive, law) To renounce a legal title to a further share of paternal inheritance.
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(of a person) Changed to a less valued condition or state; especially having lost one's religious faith.
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(law) In the law of torts, the deprivation of the benefits of a family relationship, generally including sex, affection, and companionship, due to personal injuries caused by the tortfeasor to the person from whom the claimant received these benefits.
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(historical) An oath asserting the right of the present royal family to the crown of England, and expressly abjuring allegiance to the descendants of Charles Edward Stuart, the Jacobite Pretender.
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(law) The act of obrogating.
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The act by which somebody is pardoned.
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(law, obsolete) A quashing; a defeating.
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(obsolete) means of defence; defence
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(Christianity) The last monitory before excommunication.
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The ceremonial filing out of clergy and/or choir at the end of a church service.
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An act of recusing; removing oneself from a decision/judgment because of a conflict of interest.
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(obsolete) An act of refraining.
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The act of relinquishing something.
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(law) A reduction or cancellation of the penalty for a criminal offence; in particular, the reduction of a prison sentence as a recognition of the prisoner's good behaviour.
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(obsolete, transitive) To renounce (one’s faith or god), to apostasize from.
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(card games) An act of renouncing.
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To withdraw from worldly society and pleasures in order to focus on a more spiritual life and goals.
adj
That renounces; renouncing.
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Alternative form of renay [(obsolete, transitive) To renounce (one’s faith or god), to apostasize from.]
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The act of refusing to accept; the act of repudiating.
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Relating to resignation from a post.
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(transitive) To penalize (a state etc.) with sanctions.
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The act of renouncing one's own rights or claims; self-abnegation.
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An official refusal to serve in public office or similar; a Shermanesque statement.
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(religion) Money which is offered in order to expiate one's sins.
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(law) An announcement in court that something is cancelled or set aside; an annulment.
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(obsolete) The process of waiving or outlawing a person.
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Alternative form of waiver [The act of waiving, or not insisting on, some right, claim, or privilege.]
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