Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who renounces; one who disowns or disclaims.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who renounces.
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- noun One who
renounces .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Although Roy is by no means a Gandhian renouncer of worldly goods, a good percentage of her royalties have funded causes she describes as "edgy", but is reluctant to name.
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Perhaps the most famous renouncer was Gautama Buddha, a wealthy Vedic prince from northern India.
Spiritual Teachings of the Avatar Jeffrey Armstrong 2010
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Perhaps the most famous renouncer was Gautama Buddha, a wealthy Vedic prince from northern India.
Spiritual Teachings of the Avatar Jeffrey Armstrong 2010
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The small group of nerds and programmers from the Netherlands, headed up by Bart Veldhuizen (the renouncer of the Magic Mouse), doesn't have anything to do with the money.
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Perhaps the most famous renouncer was Gautama Buddha, a wealthy Vedic prince from northern India.
Spiritual Teachings of the Avatar Jeffrey Armstrong 2010
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He, however, who, disregarding (a life of domesticity, that is) the source of much happiness, jumps to the next mode of life, -- that renouncer of his own self, [23] O monarch, is a renouncer labouring under the quality of darkness.
The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12 Kisari Mohan [Translator] Ganguli
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Bharata's race, who betakes himself to this mode of life, thinking it to be his duty and abandoning all desire for fruit, is a real renouncer, and not that man of clouded understanding who goes to the woods, abandoning home and its surroundings.
The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12 Kisari Mohan [Translator] Ganguli
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The speaker wishes to lay down that a mendicant or renouncer should never take food to the full measure of gratification.
The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12 Kisari Mohan [Translator] Ganguli
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_El Rey_, the King, -- that almost mythical sovereign, who was ignorantly adored as the personification of wisdom and beneficence, no matter how cruelly Viceroys might misgovern, or Captains-General oppress, -- was it possible to conceive him a captive, the signer of his own humiliation, the renouncer of his immemorial rights?
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 16, February, 1859 Various
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Knowing this, O king, that the person who in sacrifices gives away his righteously acquired wealth unto those Brahmanas that are well conversant with the Vedas, and restrains his soul, is, O monarch, regarded as the true renouncer.
The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12 Kisari Mohan [Translator] Ganguli
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