| They limited punishment to the person charged, and abjured the attainder of the traitor's relatives or heirs. |
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| The fair Agnes also confessed to her share in the crime of passion, and the lovers eventually abjured the realm. |
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| The clear implication is that the Party abjured all forms of violence and acts of terror. |
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| Within the time fixed by law and custom, he abjured the realm, proposing to leave the country by the port of Dover. |
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| Gilbert confessed before the coroner and abjured the realm, but Simon was found not guilty. |
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| Adam and the others fled to the Church of Branscombe, confessed their crime, and abjured the realm before the coroner. |
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| They made him watch a parody of his debating style from television's Saturday Night Live. They abjured him to avoid anecdotes where he might misstep. |
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| But unlike the sword-brandishing Ali of Sunni lore, for the Alevis, Ali abjured violence and is the embodiment of God. |
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| Disappointed in this, they turned in 1650 to Charles II, who signed the Covenant, but then abjured it at his RESTORATION, condemning it as an unlawful oath. |
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| Before her image and in this church I abjured the impure worldly affects. |
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| An abolitionist and extreme vegetarian, he even abjured manuring arable land, wearing wool and eating root vegetables, because they ignobly grew downwards. |
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| To the writer, the painter is a fortunate alter ego, an embodiment of the sensuality and exteriority that he has abjured to pursue his invisible, odorless calling. |
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| Joan agreed to wear feminine clothing when she abjured, which created a problem. |
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| Firmly seated upon the throne, Charles renounced the covenants, which in 1662 were declared unlawful oaths to be abjured by all persons holding public offices. |
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