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Renouncer

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re·nounce  (r-nouns)
v. re·nounced, re·nounc·ing, re·nounc·es
v.tr.
1. To give up (a title, for example), especially by formal announcement. See Synonyms at relinquish.
2. To reject; disown.
v.intr. Games
To revoke in cards.
n. Games
A revoke in cards.

[Middle English renouncen, from Old French renoncer, from Latin renntire, to report : re-, re- + nntire, to announce (from nntius, messenger; see neu- in Indo-European roots).]

re·nouncement n.
re·nouncer n.


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These range from the gentle asceticism and "creative frugality" commended by Jay McDaniel and the householder disciplines mentioned by Jeffery Long to the extreme austerities of some Hindu and Jain renouncers noted by Ramdas Lamb and Christopher Chapple.
This first chapter also recounts the origin and development of female renouncers in the Buddhist traditions of South and South East Asia, a movement which had a profound affect on the development of the Theravada movement in Nepal.
 
 
 
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