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>Although it was most humiliating for a renunciant, even one of the

>show-bottle brand, to return to secular life (which perhaps was one

>reason why so many pseudo renunciants maintained their charade)...

 

The sentence has other problems.

 

The referrent for "it" is needlessly delayed. (Why not "Although

returning to secular life was. . ."?)

 

More serious: What is the antecedent of "which"? "Secular life"? "To

return"? And whichever you choose, what does the parenthetical phrase

*mean*?

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