In order to insure a test that will make this last provision effective, the sovereign is obliged to take an oath, Abjuring the Catholic religion, in words which have proved offensive to members of that faith.
"The Government of England (Vol. I)"
A. Lawrence Lowell
Of her state Meredith says: "Men and women alike, who renounce their own individuality by cowering thus abjectly under some other before the storm, are in reality Abjuring their idea of that other, and offering themselves up to the genius of Power in whatsoever direction it may chance to be manifested, in whatsoever person.
"The Three Heron's Feathers"
Hermann Sudermann
He asks such poets if they would "Play the fool, Abjuring a superior privilege?
"The Three Heron's Feathers"
Hermann Sudermann