- renunciation
- n1. relinquishment, abnegation, abdication, resignation, giving up, Archaic. demission; transfer, transferal, transference, ceding, cession, handing over; surrender, yielding, renouncement.2. abandonment, desertion, forsaking, rejection, disowning, disinheriting, turning one's back on, washing one's hands of; neglect, negligence, dereliction, remissness.3. repudiation, disavowal, denial, recantation, (usu. under oath) abjuration, retraction, disclaimer, disclamation, back-pedaling; defection, heresy, apostasy, recreance, recreancy.4. sacrifice, self-denial, self-restraint, self-control; austerity, abstemiousness, abstinence, abstention, continence, celibacy; forbearance, restraint, moderation, temperance.
A Note on the Style of the synonym finder. 2014.