“This declaration, however, does not signify that Hardy's dissatisfaction resulted in a total abjuration of all the philosophical ideas and systems he read.”
“The dramatic crisis stems from Galileo's enforced abjuration in 1633 of his belief in a heliocentric universe.”
“The response among younger women to this dilemma, at least in the feverish imagination of the media, has been an abjuration of femininity.”