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  • The renunciation by the witches was explicit, but the records are apt to pass it over in a few words, e.g. 'I denied my baptism,' 'I forsook God and Christ,' 'Ils renient Dieu, la Vierge, et le reste,' 'Vne renonciation expresse à Iesu-Christ & à la foy'; but occasionally the words are given in full.

    The Witch-cult in Western Europe A Study in Anthropology Margaret Alice Murray 1913

  • 'Le premier moment est la déclaration ministérielle du 6 juillet; le second, la renonciation du Prince Antoine (11 juillet); le troisième, la demande de garanties de la droite (12 juillet); le quatrième, le soufflet de Bismarck et la fabrication de la dépêche d'Ems; le cinquième, notre réponse au soufflet de Bismarck par notre déclaration de guerre du 15 juillet.'

    Studies in Literature and History Alfred Comyn Lyall 1873

  • "renonciation totale et douce," and "joie, joie, joie, pleurs de joie," express something of his resolution and his rapture.

    A History of French Literature Short Histories of the Literatures of the World: II. Edward Dowden 1878

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