Abjuration

The ceremony, called the Abjuration, was a last attempt to frighten Jeanne into confessing that her "Voices" had deceived her, and her mission was untrue.

The Story of Rouen Theodore Andrea Cook 1897

"Abjuration" null and void, that she might be given up into the hands of those who were thirsting for her life!

A Heroine of France Evelyn Everett-Green 1894

These it was who after endless formalities, against which even some of themselves were forced in honour to protest, played so base and infamous a part -- culminating in that so-called "Abjuration," as false as those who plotted for it -- capped by their own infamous trick to render even that

A Heroine of France Evelyn Everett-Green 1894

A few days after the interment of the deceased, the White Penitents performed a solemn service for him in their chapel; the church was hung with white, and a tomb was raised in the middle of it, on the top of which was placed a human skeleton, holding in one hand a paper, on which was written, "Abjuration of heresy," and in the other a palm, the emblem of martyrdom.

Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs John Foxe

"Apology" to the charges against him; but his practical answer to the king was the Act of Abjuration, by which at his persuasion the representatives of the northern provinces, assembled at The Hague, solemnly proclaimed their separation from the crown of Spain, broke the royal seal of Philip II, and declared the king deprived of all authority over them.

A Political and Social History of Modern Europe V.1. Carlton J. H. Hayes 1923

And the direct interference with her governance implied by the Oaths of Allegiance and of Abjuration raised questions we have not yet solved.

Political Thought in England from Locke to Bentham Harold Joseph Laski 1921

+ Abjuration de formali (of formal heresy), made by a notorious heretic or apostate;

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize 1840-1916 1913

Abjuration and Test oaths were subscribed, — the former renouncing allegiance to the House of Stuart, and the latter affirming the receiving of the sacrament according to the rites of the Church of England.

Albemarle County in Virginia 1900

In place of the Oaths of Supremacy and Abjuration he desired to impose on members of Parliament and officials merely the Oath of

William Pitt and the Great War John Holland Rose 1898

Supremacy in the Bill of Rights may sit in Parliament without subscribing the Abjuration.

William Pitt and the Great War John Holland Rose 1898