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RENOUNCE
disown, renounce, repudiate
(verb) cast off; âShe renounced her husbandâ; âThe parents repudiated their sonâ
foreswear, renounce, quit, relinquish
(verb) turn away from; give up; âI am foreswearing women foreverâ
vacate, resign, renounce, give up
(verb) leave (a job, post, or position) voluntarily; âShe vacated the position when she got pregnantâ; âThe chairman resigned when he was found to have misappropriated fundsâ
abdicate, renounce
(verb) give up, such as power, as of monarchs and emperors, or duties and obligations; âThe King abdicated when he married a divorceeâ
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
renounce (plural renounces)
(card games) An act of renouncing.
Verb
renounce (third-person singular simple present renounces, present participle renouncing, simple past and past participle renounced)
(transitive) To give up, resign, surrender, atsake.
(transitive) To cast off, repudiate.
(transitive) To decline further association with someone or something, disown.
(transitive) To abandon, forsake, discontinue (an action, habit, intention, etc), sometimes by open declaration.
(intransitive) To make a renunciation of something.
(intransitive) To surrender formally some right or trust.
(intransitive, card games) To fail to follow suit; playing a card of a different suit when having no card of the suit led.
Synonyms
• forsay
• forswear
Source: Wiktionary
Re*nounce" (r-nouns"), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Renounced (-nounst"); p. pr. & vb. n. Renouncing (-noun"sng).] Etym: [F. renoncer, L. renuntiare to bring back word, announce, revoke, retract, renounce; pref. re- re- + nuntiare to announce, fr. nuncius, a messenger. See Nuncio, and cf. Renunciation.]
1. To declare against; to reject or decline formally; to refuse to own or acknowledge as belonging to one; to disclaim; as, to renounce a title to land or to a throne.
2. To cast off or reject deliberately; to disown; to dismiss; to forswear. This world I do renounce, and in your sights Shake patiently my great affliction off. Shak.
3. (Card Playing)
Definition: To disclaim having a card of (the suit led) by playing a card of another suit. To renounce probate (Law), to decline to act as the executor of a will. Mozley & W.
Syn.
– To cast off; disavow; disown; disclaim; deny; abjure; recant; abandon; forsake; quit; forego; resign; relinquish; give up; abdicate.
– Renounce, Abjure, Recant.
– To renounce is to make an affirmative declaration of abandonment. To abjure is to renounce with, or as with, the solemnity of an oath. To recant is to renounce or abjure some proposition previously affirmed and maintained. From Thebes my birth I own; . . . since no disgrace Can force me to renounce the honor of my race. Dryden. Either to die the death, or to abjure Forever the society of man. Shak. Ease would recant Vows made in pain, as violent and void. Milton.
Re*nounce", v. i.
1. To make renunciation. [Obs.] He of my sons who fails to make it good, By one rebellious act renounces to my blood. Dryden.
2. (Law)
Definition: To decline formally, as an executor or a person entitled to letters of administration, to take out probate or letters. Dryden died without a will, and his widow having renounced, his son Charles administered on June 10. W. D. Christie.
Re*nounce", n. (Card Playing)
Definition: Act of renouncing.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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