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Definition: RENOUNCING |
RENOUNCINGPersonal pronoun & verb & noun1. Of Renounce |
Date "RENOUNCING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1532. (references) |
Crosswords: RENOUNCING |
| English words defined with "RENOUNCING": Abdicant, Abnegative ♦ forgoing, forswearing ♦ renouncement, renunciation. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "RENOUNCING": doctrine of election. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Lyrics | Renouncing paradise of the weak and the lowly, (One With Darkness; performing artist: Cher) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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Books | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Loyola, renouncing the world, St. Ignatius Church, St. Ignace, Michigan.Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Economic History | Ireland | In so doing, it sought to prevent both sides from renouncing the 1998 Good Friday Agreement altogether. (references) |
Minorities | Bhutan | Finally the Government contends that some ethnic Nepalese left the country voluntarily, thus renouncing their Bhutanese citizenship. (references) |
Worker Rights | Ukraine | Renouncing membership in the official union and joining an independent union can be bureaucratically onerous and typically is discouraged by management. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "RENOUNCING" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "RENOUNCING" is used about 47 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (-ing form) | 100% | 47 | 49,740 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "RENOUNCING": self-renouncing, state-renouncing, world-renouncing. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
citizenship renouncing u.s | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "RENOUNCING"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||
Chinese | æ"¾å¼ƒ (Abandonment, Abnegate, Abnegated, Abnegating, Abort, Aborted, Ditched, Ditching, quit, Quits, Quitted, Quitting, relinquish, relinquished, relinquishing, renege, renounce, Renounced, Waive, Waived, Waiver, Waiving). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
French | renonçant. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
German | verzichtend. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | elhagyás (abandonment, betrayal, dereliction, desertion, doing-away, giving up, jilting, leaving off, omission, overtaking, relinquishment, surrender). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | æ¨èº« (at the risk of one's life, becoming a priest, renouncing the flesh or the world, risking one's life for others). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | ã—ゃã—ã‚" (becoming a priest, photograph, renouncing the flesh or the world, risking one's life for others). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | enouncingray à icheadh (contradicting, deny, denying). (various references) avsägande sig. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Misspellings | |
"RENOUNCING" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: reinducing. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "RENOUNCING" (pronounced ri'nou"nsing) |
| 6 | -n ou" n s i ng | announcing, denouncing, pronouncing. |
| 5 | -ou" n s i ng | bouncing, pouncing, trouncing. |
| 4 | -n s i ng | advancing, balancing, commencing, condensing, conferencing, convincing, dancing, dispensing, distancing, enhancing, expensing, experiencing, fencing, financing, freelancing, glancing, influencing, Lancing, lensing, licensing, mensing, mincing, outdistancing, prancing, rebalancing, referencing, refinancing, rinsing, romancing, sensing, sentencing, sequencing, silencing, teleconferencing, unconvincing, videoconferencing, wincing. |
| 3 | -s i ng | accessing, acquiescing, addressing, affixing, amassing, annexing, assessing, basing, blessing, boxing, bracing, busing, bussing, buttressing, bypassing, canvassing, caressing, casing, ceasing, chasing, classing, coalescing, coaxing, coercing, collapsing, compressing, confessing, conversing, coursing, crisscrossing, crossing, cursing, cussing, debasing, decreasing, defacing, depressing, diagnosing, digressing, disbursing, discussing, dismissing, dispersing, displacing, distressing, divorcing, dosing, dousing, dowsing, dressing, eclipsing, effacing, embarrassing, embracing, encompassing, endorsing, enforcing, engrossing, enticing, erasing, expressing, facing, faxing, fixing, flexing, focusing, forcing, fundraising, fussing, gassing, greasing, grimacing, grossing, grousing, guessing, hairdressing, harassing, harnessing, hissing, horsing, icing, impressing, increasing, indexing, inducing, intermixing, introducing, invoicing, kissing, lapsing, leasing, loosing, massing, menacing, messing, missing, mixing, noticing, nursing, obsessing, oppressing, outpacing, outsourcing, overproducing, pacing, parsing, passing, perplexing, piecing, piercing, placing, policing, possessing, practicing, prejudicing, pressing, pricing, processing, producing, professing, progressing, promising, pulsing, racing, reassessing, recessing, redressing, reducing, refocusing, rehearsing, reimbursing, reinforcing, reintroducing, rejoicing, relapsing, relaxing, releasing, reminiscing, replacing, repressing, repricing, reprocessing, reproducing, repulsing, repurchasing, resurfacing, retracing, reversing, sacrificing, seducing, servicing, showcasing, slicing, sluicing, sourcing, spacing, spicing, splicing, sprucing, stressing, subleasing, suppressing, surfacing, surpassing, taxing, tossing, tracing, traipsing, traversing, trespassing, unceasing, underpricing, unpromising, vexing, voicing, waltzing, waxing, wissing, witnessing, xeroxing. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-e-g-i-n-n-n-o-r-u" | |
-1 letter: cunninger, enouncing. | |
-2 letters: encoring, neuronic. | |
-3 letters: coenuri, conning, coreign, corning, cunning, enuring, grunion, inconnu, negroni, reunion, running, unicorn. | |
-4 letters: cering, coigne, coiner, conger, conine, coning, conner, coring, cringe, cueing, cunner, curing, eringo, ginner, guenon, gunnen, gunner, ignore, neuron, nuncio, orcein, recoin, region, rennin. | |
-5 letters: coign, conge, conin, corgi, cornu, crone, cuing, curie, curio, ennui, erugo. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-e-g-i-n-n-n-o-r-u" | |
+1 letter: incongruent, nonreducing. | |
+2 letters: encountering, incongruence, nonrecurring, truncheoning. | |
+3 letters: countermining, incongruences, incongruently, preannouncing, rencountering, undercounting, unencouraging. | |
+4 letters: countermanding, countersigning, countersinking, reencountering. | |
+5 letters: counterchanging, counterpointing, counterpunching, counterstaining, incongruousness, uncomprehending. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)52 45 4E 4F 55 4E 43 49 4E 47 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).-. . -. --- ..- -. -.-. .. -. --. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010010 01000101 01001110 01001111 01010101 01001110 01000011 01001001 01001110 01000111 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)R E N O U N C I N G |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0052 0045 004E 004F 0055 004E 0043 0049 004E 0047 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)52394849554837434841 |
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