Crossword-Solution: ABJURATION 10 letters, 2 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 19

The act of abjuring or forswearing; a renunciation upon oath; as, abjuration of the realm, a sworn banishment, an oath taken to leave the country and never to return.

With the habit and profession of monks, the public and private worship of images was rigorously proscribed; and it should seem, that a solemn abjuration of idolatry was exacted from the subjects, or at least from the clergy, of the Eastern empire.

After viewing the temper of the prince and people, they were enjoined to absolve the schismatic clergy, who should subscribe and swear their abjuration and obedience; to establish in all the churches the use of the perfect creed; to prepare the entrance of a cardinal legate, with the full powers and dignity of his office; and to instruct the emperor in the advantages which he might derive from the temporal protection of the Roman pontiff.

Here’s a roll of the State’s tobacco, If any good fellow will take it; No Virginia had e’er such a Smack-o, And I’ll tell you how they did make it: ’Tis th’ Engagement and Covenant cook’t Up with the abjuration oath, And many of them that have took’t Complain it was foul in the mouth.

Yet, as other tortures, no less it may be thought, attended the non-abjuration of such a tyrant, a choice only of evils was left; and _that_ might as well have been adopted which, however terrific in itself, held out a prospect of final restoration to happiness.