Crossword-Solution: RENOUNCER
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Renouncer | n. | One who renounces. |
We have 4 clues for the answer “RENOUNCER”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Forsaker of pleasures. | 1 answer |
| One who abdicates | 1 answer |
| One who repudiates. | 1 answer |
| One who sacrifices personal ambition. | 1 answer |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with RENOUNCER (5)
That is the true Renouncer, firm and fixed, Who--seeking nought, rejecting nought--dwells proof Against the "opposites."[FN#8] O valiant Prince! In doing, such breaks lightly from all deed: 'Tis the new scholar talks as they were two, This Sankhya and this Yoga: wise men know Who husbands one plucks golden fruit of both! The region of high rest which Sankhyans reach Yogins attain.
McDuffie; Hamilton, (the transcendant, of South Carolina fame;) Butler, of good component parts-eloquent, but moved by fancied wrongs; Rhett, renouncer of that vulgar name of Smith, who hated man because he spoke, yet would not fight because he feared his God; and betwixt them, a host of worthies who made revenge a motto; and last, but not least, great Quattlebum, whose strength and spirit knows no bound, and brought the champion Commander, with his enthusiastic devotion, to lead unfaltering forlorn hopes.
But there seemed an absolute resolution formed to crush this acquaintance, and compel me to appear its wilful renouncer.
Poets are especially liable to this change of intention, as La Fontaine observes:-- "O! combien l'homme est inconstant, divers, Foible, léger, tenant mal sa parole, J'avois juré, même en assez beaux vers, De renouncer à tout Conte frivole.
Knowing this, O king, that the person who in sacrifices gives away his righteously acquired wealth unto those Brahmanas that are well conversant with the Vedas, and restrains his soul, is, O monarch, regarded as the true renouncer.
Quotes with RENOUNCER (2)
Saadi: Be a true renouncer, (zahid) and [you can even] ware satin.
Giving up alcohol is an asceticism for the modern do-gooder, drinking being, like sex, a pleasure that humans have always indulged in, involving a loss of self-control, the renunciation of which marks the renouncer as different and separate from other people. To drink, to get drunk, is to lower yourself on purpose for the sake of good fellowship. You abandon yourself, for a time, to life and fate. You allow yourself to become stupider and less distinct. Your boundaries become…
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 4 times in crossword archives (1953–1974).