Definition of "renouncing" []

• Present participle of renounce. (verb)

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• "By the sacrifice they make in renouncing matrimony, they are witnesses to the Lord as our Bridegroom, to our hope of union with God for eternity, where marriage as it is known here will no longer exists."
• "BLITZER: Well, there's -- yesterday, when Miles was interviewing Saeb Erakat, he said why simply issue this press -- this piece of paper, this statement in Arabic renouncing terrorism among Israeli civilians and Palestinians."
• "They spend entire congresses in renouncing the sufferings of others; better to stay safely within the precincts of science."