All abjuration synonyms
ab·ju·ra·tion
A a noun abjuration
- renunciation — an act or instance of relinquishing, abandoning, repudiating, or sacrificing something, as a right, title, person, or ambition: the king's renunciation of the throne.
- withdrawal — Also, withdrawment. the act or condition of withdrawing.
- recantation — to withdraw or disavow (a statement, opinion, etc.), especially formally; retract.
- backdown — an act of retreating from a previously asserted position
- rejection — the act or process of rejecting.
- disavowal — a disowning; repudiation; denial.
- denial — A denial of something is a statement that it is not true, does not exist, or did not happen.
- repudiation — the act of repudiating.
- abnegation — a giving up of rights, etc.; self-denial; renunciation
- refrainment — to abstain from an impulse to say or do something (often followed by from): I refrained from telling him what I thought.
- avoidance — Avoidance of someone or something is the act of avoiding them.
- abstention — Abstention is a formal act of not voting either for or against a proposal.
- retraction — the act of retracting or the state of being retracted.
- palinode — a poem in which the poet retracts something said in an earlier poem.