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Abjure

//əbˈd͡ʒʊə(ɹ)// verb

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Verb
  1. 1
    To solemnly reject (someone or something); to abandon (someone or something) forever; to disavow, to disclaim, to repudiate. formal, transitive

    "to abjure errors"

  2. 2
    formally reject or disavow a formerly held belief, usually under pressure wordnet
  3. 3
    To renounce (something) upon oath; to forswear; specifically, to recant or retract (a heresy or some other opinion); to withdraw. formal, historical, transitive

    "to abjure allegiance to a prince"

  4. 4
    To cause (someone) to recant or retract (a heresy or some other opinion). formal, historical, transitive

    "[T]hey vvere betrayed, and then many of them to the number of ſix or ſeven ſcore vvere abjured, and three or four of them burnt. Novv although vve knevv not hovv to call theſe Martyrs vvho ſo ſuffered, their Names no doubt are vvritten in the Book of Life."

  5. 5
    Especially in abjure the realm: to swear an oath to leave (a place) forever. formal, historical, transitive

    "When a clerk heretofore was convicted of felony, he might have saved his life by abjuring the realm; that is, by departing the realm within a certain time appointed, and taking an oath never to return. But at this day all statutes for abjuration are repealed."

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  1. 6
    To cause or compel (someone) to leave a place forever; to banish. formal, historical, obsolete, rare, transitive

    "The ſtrong effect of theyr conceiued ire, / Vrging the vveake King vvith a violent hand, / T' abiure thoſe falſe Lords from the troubled land."

  2. 7
    To solemnly reject; to abandon forever. formal, intransitive

    "Eaſily canſt thou find one miſerable, / And not inforc'd oft-times to part from truth; / If it may ſtand him more in ſtead to lye, / Say and unſay, feign, flatter, or abjure?"

  3. 8
    To recant or retract a heresy on oath. formal, historical, intransitive

    "Nor neuer yet found I ani. j. [any one] but he would once abiure, though he neuer intended to kepe his othe."

  4. 9
    To swear an oath to leave a place forever. formal, historical, intransitive

    "I Abiowre⸝ I forſake myne errours as an heretyke dothe⸝ or forſwere the kynges landes⸝ ie abiure, prime coniugationis."

Etymology

From Late Middle English abjuren (“to give up (something); to recant or renounce (something) under oath”), from Anglo-Norman abjurer, Middle French abiurer, abjurer, and Old French abjurer (“to reject or renounce (something) on oath”) (modern French abjurer), and from their etymon Latin abiūrāre, the present active infinitive of abiūrō (“to deny on oath, recant, renounce, repudiate, abjure”), from ab- (prefix meaning ‘away from, from’) + iūro (“to take an oath, swear, vow”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₂yew- (“(adjective) right; straight; upright; (noun) justice; law; right”).

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