An act or instance of relinquishing, abandoning, repudiating, or sacrificing something, as a right, title, person, etc
The renunciation of a belief or a way of behaving is the public declaration that you reject it and have decided to stop having that belief or behaving in that way. The talks were dependent on a renunciation of terrorism
Renunciation is the act of not allowing yourself certain pleasures for moral or religious reasons. Gandhi exemplified the virtues of renunciation, asceticism and restraint. = self-denial. when someone makes a formal decision to no longer believe in something, live in a particular way etc renounce renunciation of (renuntiatio, from renuntiare; RENOUNCE)