The dramatic crisis stems from Galileo's enforced abjuration in 1633 of his belief in a heliocentric universe. |
The response among younger women to this dilemma, at least in the feverish imagination of the media, has been an abjuration of femininity. |
Tecla Georgis renounced his abjuration, and at his death persisted in his errors. |
The Inquisition had accepted Cardano's private abjuration, extracting a promise from him never to teach or publish in the Papal States again. |
The young preacher was summoned to take the oath of allegiance and abjuration. |
This fugitive role has always been in play, however, and the abjuration of a role might just be another part of his peculiar mischief. |