The severity of the law was modified by a felon's right to abjure the realm if he succeeded in reaching the sanctuary of a church. |
After a long and wearisome trial he was condemned on June 22, 1633, solemnly to abjure his scientific creed on bended knees. |
If the accused would neither submit to trial nor abjure the realm after 40 days, he was starved into submission. |
That was as impossible as to make them abjure by proclamation, their religion. |
Thus, Muldrow cannot help but abjure spiritual claims to universal enlightenment. |
I want to look closely at the first lines of the poem, in which Smith seems to abjure any claim of authority. |