It makes no formal renunciation of allegiance to Spain, but this is virtually done by the omission of the king's name.

This meant a renunciation of Cissie Dildine; but he told himself he renounced very little.

This discovery awakened their suspicions, and the next day Bourdon de l'Oise, a man of unsteady principles, (even as a revolutionist,) was spirited up to demand an explicit renunciation of any power in the Committee to attack the legislative inviolability except in the accustomed forms.

Philip of Burgundy, thus become sovereign of dominions at once so extensive and compact, had the precaution and address to obtain from the emperor a formal renunciation of his existing, though almost nominal, rights as lord paramount.

The civil contract includes, then, two moments: first, renunciation; second, irrevocable transference and (absolute) submission.

Nor would it be easy to praise too highly the large and patriotic spirit which moved the heads of the Expedition to an act involving at once so generous a renunciation of all selfish hopes and prospects, and so bold an assumption of responsibility.

The teaching of Romola is much of it reproduced, at least that portion of it which inculcates renunciation and altruism.

Her nobleness now consisted in this, that she kept her husband informed of the state of her heart and gradually led him to perfect renunciation of her.

But as He preached a renunciation of the world both to His disciples and to Himself, let us not be astonished that they treated Him with so much disdain.

When, however, the Treaty of London was arranged it was necessary to procure the renunciation of all the different claimants.

" Some days later appeared, almost at the same timethe 17th of December, 1718, and the 9th of January, 1719the manifestoes of England and France, proclaiming the resolution of making war upon Spain, whilst Philip V., by a declaration of December 25th, 1718, pronounced all renunciations illusory, and proclaimed his right to the throne of France in case of the death of Louis XV.

All through it he could read renunciation; she was giving him up; she was loosening her hold over him; she was nobly sacrificing her love to his life-work.

I regretted my renunciation.

Also to the party not in fault for desertion for one year, adultery, condemnation for felony, concealment of any loathsome disease at time of marriage or contracting it afterwards, force, duress, or fraud in obtaining marriage, uniting with any creed or religious society requiring a renunciation of the marriage covenant or forbidding husband and wife to cohabit.

The king of France, setting at naught his solemn renunciation at the peace of the Pyrenees of all claims to any part of the Spanish territories in right of his wife, who was daughter of the late king, found excellent reasons (for his own satisfaction) to invade a material portion of that declining monarchy.

Little Lakshmi follows the adventures of the loved heroine as she shares Rama's unselfish renunciation of the throne and exile to the forest with its alarms of wild beasts and wild men.

November 9th the Kaiser was compelled by the revolutionists to abdicate, and the crown prince signed a renunciation of his right to the succession.

Here, near such altar-lights, had once the oppressed Liana knelt while swearing the renunciation of her love.

No one can deny that the morality is a lofty one, and, as far as it asserts self-renunciation, entirely useful; we have with all our hearts to thank George Eliot for that part of her work.

It is one in which we shall see unbounded trust met by treacherous deceit, in which we shall see countless benefactions rewarded by the basest ingratitude, and in which we shall witness the deliberate renunciation of a life of honourable effort in favour of the tortuous and precarious ways of the criminal.

So Schiller makes her supernatural power dependby the Virgin's express commandon her renunciation of the love of man.

No one who knew him intimately could doubt his entire renunciation of worldly ambitions, the sacrifice was so great, yet so unhesitatingly made.

By sacrifice man expresses his renunciation of his property, his will, his individual feelings.

[Footnote 117: 'Feed your famine:' the renunciation of the Benedictines to the abbey lands.