abjuration

  1. Noun.  The act of abjuring or forswearing; a renunciation upon oath; as, ''abjuration'' of the realm, a sworn banishment, an oath taken to leave the country and never to return.
  2. Noun.  A solemn recantation or renunciation; as, an '''abjuration''' of heresy.

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