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Meanings of renunciant in English

Used especially of behavior.

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Examples for "renunciative"
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I have not the grand self-abnegating spirit necessary for such a work.
Not Pretty, but Precious; And Other Short Stories
2
We all know overly devoted, self-abnegating men and women who are philanderers.
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3
Joseph is a pattern of self-abnegating submission, and an example of its rewards.
Expositions of Holy Scripture / Ezekiel, Daniel, and the Minor P...
4
He shook in a self-abnegating way, as one who shook for Tellson and Co.
A Tale of Two Cities
5
The old fellow's voice was strangely balanced between pathos and a peculiar self-abnegating humour.
The Slave of the Lamp
1
She had learnt also the lowly and self-denying faith in common chances.
The Colour of Life
2
The Lord make us wiser, more self-denying and more loyal to duty.
Danger; Or, Wounded in the House of a Friend
3
The early Franciscans were men of deep, religious fervour, self-denying and godly.
By the Golden Gate; Or, San Francisco, the Queen City of the Pac...
4
He had spent twenty-one years an earnest, self-denying minister of Jesus Christ.
The Adventures of the Chevalier De La Salle and His Companions, ...
5
We honor the memory of the early and self-denying workers among the Freedmen.
The American Missionary — Volume 42, No. 07, July, 1888