ejuration
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from Latin ēiūrātiō, from ēiūrō (“to abjure, disown, resign”) + -tiō.
Noun[edit]
ejuration (usually uncountable, plural ejurations)
- (obsolete, rare) Renouncement, rejection; resignation of one's position.
- 1645, Simonds D'Ewes, The primitive practise for preserving truth[1], page 12:
- Paul witnesseth of himself, before his conversion, to blaspheme, by their ejuration of the known truth, and their subscriptions to the Popish trumperies.
- 1657, Alexander Petrie, A compendious history of the Catholick church from the year 600 untill the year 1600 shewing her deformation and reformation[2], page 54:
- The Imperiall seat can not vaike but by death, or deprivation or eiuration […]
- 1663, John Barbon, “Preface to the Reader”, in Leitourgia theiotera ergia, or, Liturgie a most divine service in answer to a late pamphlet stiled, Common-prayer-book no divine service:
- The Bishops of England after their conversion to the faith and ejuration of Papistry, have been the faithfull Servants of God […]