definition of the word abjuration

From French abjuratio: compare Latin abjuration.

• Rhymes: -eɪʃǝn

abjuration (plural abjurations)

1. 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. A solemn recantation or renunciation; as, an abjuration of heresy.

• Oath of abjuration, an oath asserting the right of the present royal family to the crown of England, and expressly abjuring allegiance to the descendants of the Pretender - Brande & C

• (Version: Centennial,Series 90,DJS,Simplified): a - b - j - u - r - a - sh
• (Version: Anniversary,Pre-Anniversary): a - b - j - u - sh

• “abjuration” in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

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