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Renunciates
The spouses of churchmen who, from devotion or ambition to rise within the clerical hierarchy, have requested a form of legal and spiritual alteration in their marriage vows that abjurs conjugal relations and cohabitation. Renunciates are often granted high degrees of Envowed Servitude in cloistered, single-gender communities.
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