something that causes privation or indicates an absence
causing privation; depriving
consisting in the absence of something; negative
indicating the absence of something
The act of rejecting or renouncing something as invalid.
The resignation of an ecclesiastical office.
In the Anglican baptismal service, the part in which the candidate in person or by his sureties renounces the Devil and all his works.
The act by which a person abandons a right acquired, but without transferring it to another.