ejuration

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin ēiūrātiō, from ēiūrō (“to abjure, disown, resign”) + -tiō.

Noun

ejuration (usually uncountable, plural ejurations)

1. (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 […]