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Renounce

//ɹɪˈnaʊns// noun, verb

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    An act of renouncing.
Verb
  1. 1
    To give up, resign, surrender. transitive

    "to renounce a title to land or to a throne"

  2. 2
    cast off wordnet
  3. 3
    To cast off, repudiate. transitive

    "This world I do renounce, and in your sights Shake patiently my great affliction off."

  4. 4
    turn away from; give up wordnet
  5. 5
    To decline further association with someone or something, disown. transitive
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  1. 6
    leave (a job, post, or position) voluntarily wordnet
  2. 7
    To abandon, forsake, discontinue (an action, habit, intention, etc), sometimes by open declaration. transitive

    "[…] some families renounced the use of a certain praenomen which had been disgraced by one of their name […]"

  3. 8
    give up, such as power, as of monarchs and emperors, or duties and obligations wordnet
  4. 9
    To make a renunciation of something. intransitive

    "He of my sons who fails to make it good, / By one rebellious act renounces to my blood."

  5. 10
    To surrender formally some right or trust. intransitive

    "Dryden died without a will, and his widow having renounced, his son Charles administered on June 10."

  6. 11
    To fail to follow suit; playing a card of a different suit when having no card of the suit led. intransitive

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Old French renoncier (French renoncer), from Latin renūntiō.

Etymology 2

From Old French renoncier (French renoncer), from Latin renūntiō.

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