English-Dutch translations for renunciation

• afstand
  Tot nu toe heeft geen enkel land ter wereld een verplichting ondertekend waardoor het eenzijdig afstand doet van zijn soevereiniteit. Never before has any state on this earth signed up to such a commitment to the unilateral renunciation of its own sovereignty.
  Wij moeten vooral rekening houden met de ontwikkelingslanden. Als de industrielanden afstand doen van hun exportsubsidies, is dat al een belangrijke tegemoetkoming. It is these countries, in particular, that we need to defend, and the industrialised countries’ renunciation of export subsidies is a major step in this direction.
• afzwering
• negatie
• ontkenning

Definition of renunciation

• the act of rejecting or renouncing something as invalid
• the resignation of an ecclesiastical office
• The act by which a person abandons a right acquired, but without transferring it to another

Examples

• The Presidents renunciation of the treaty has upset Congress.
• The life of the spirit demands readiness for renunciation when the occasion arises...Bertrand Russell, Why Men Fight: A Method of Abolishing the International Duel (1917)--
• The bishops renunciation was on account of his ill health.

Related words

• self-renunciation
• abrenunciation
• renunciative