ejuration

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noun

Renouncement, rejection; resignation of one's position.

OriginLatin ēiūrātiō →
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Meanings

nounejuration (usually uncountable, plural ejurations)

plural ejurations

  1. obsoleterareuncountableusuallyRenouncement, rejection; resignation of one's position.

    The Imperiall seat can not vaike but by death, or deprivation or eiuration[…]

    1657, Alexander Petrie, A compendious history of the Catholick church from the year 600 untill the year 1600 shewing her deformation and reformation, page 54
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    Paul witnesseth of himself, before his conversion, to blaspheme, by their ejuration of the known truth, and their subscriptions to the Popish trumperies.

    1645, Simonds D'Ewes, The primitive practise for preserving truth, page 12

    The Bishops of England after their conversion to the faith and ejuration of Papistry, have been the faithfull Servants of God[…]

    1663, John Barbon, “Preface to the Reader”, in Leitourgia theiotera ergia, or, Liturgie a most divine service in answer to a late pamphlet stiled, Common-prayer-book no divine service

Origin

  1. Latinēiūrātiō
  2. Englishejuration

Borrowed from Latin ēiūrātiō, from ēiūrō (“to abjure, disown, resign”) + -tiō.

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APA

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MLA

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Chicago

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