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Renounce
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TO RENOUNCE. To give up a right; for example, an executor may renounce the right of administering the estate of the testator; a widow the right to administer to her intestate husband's estate.
     2. There are some rights which a person cannot renounce; as, for example, to plead the act of limitation. Before a person can become a citizen of the United States he must renounce all titles of nobility. Vide Naturalization; To Repudiate.
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She notes the animalistic posturing humans engage in when they interact with one another, scientists who continue to seek knowledge with a conceit that destroys animals and lands, and a population that renounces the world by retreating into comfortable shaper fantasies or by committing mass suicides.
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Such an individualistic attitude might work for a hermit who renounces the world.
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Simply put, Charles becomes the true Christian hero when he renounces the world and all its politics and pomp, for only then does he acknowledge that "There's no happines at all in this World" (Williams, 51).
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