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Definition of Renunciative
1. Adjective. Used especially of behavior.
Similar to: Nonindulgent, Strict
Derivative terms: Renounce
Definition of Renunciative
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Renunciative
Literary usage of Renunciative
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Harvard Classics by Charles William Eliot (1910)
"To let thee sit beneath the fall of tears As salt as mine, and hear the sighing
years Re-sighing on my lips renunciative Through those infrequent smiles ..."
2. British Poets of the Nineteenth Century: Selections from Wordsworth by Curtis Hidden Page (1904)
"... I can give ? i sit beneath the fall of tears mine, and hear the sighing 3 on
in}- lips renunciative hose infrequent smiles which to live adjurations ? ..."
3. Mississippi Valley Beginnings: An Outline of the Early History of the by Henry Edward Chambers (1922)
"His cherished religion was of the somber, austere type, renunciative of worldly
enjoyments and invocative of terrors to come. ..."
4. Ruskin and His Circle by Ada Earland (1910)
"To let thee sit beneath the fall of tears As salt as mine, and hear the sighing
years Re-sighing on my lips renunciative Through those infrequent smiles ..."
5. Life of Heinrich Heine by William Sharp, John Parker Anderson (1888)
"... the elder writer: and there is certainly something amusing in the most sensuous
of German poets pourtray- ing himself as the renunciative idealist, ..."
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