Abjuration

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

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

II. Abjuration ·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.

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