Joan of Arc refused to renounce her belief that the voice she heard was from God and none other.
Source: tatoeba (1975)
Renounce
//ɹɪˈnaʊns//
Synonyms for "renounce" (202 found)
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Closest matches (41)
Strong matches (60)
Related words (101)
gainsayget along withoutget rid ofgivegive awaygive overgive uphalthand overhave done withholdignoreimplore mercyimpugnjoin issue uponkisskiss good byekiss good-byeknock it offlay down
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lay offleaveleave offlet gomake a sacrificeneglectnol-prosnot acceptnot admitnot pursue withnullifyopposepartpart withpasspass bypass uppray for quarterpush asideput behind onequitclaimratrebuffrecantrefrainrefuserefuse to admitrefuse to considerrefuterenderrender uprenegerepelrepudiaterepulseretractreverserevokerevoltridrésignersacrificesay unclescoutscrubshove awayshunsparespurnstaystopsurrenderswallowswearswear offtake backtake issue withtake the pledgetergiversateterminatethrowthrow awaythrow offthrow outthrow overthrow upturnturn awayturn outunsaywaivewithdrawyieldyield the palm
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14 entriesRelated terms
4 entriesderived
7 entrieshas context
1 entriesmanner of
1 entriesrelated to
22 entriesShowing 16 of 22 words.
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6 entriesTranslations
109 translations across 27 languages.
Arabic
1 entries- تَبَرَّأَ مِنْ verb (decline association with)
Azerbaijani
1 entries- danmaq verb (decline association with)
Bulgarian
4 entries- изоставям verb (abandon, forsake an action)
- отказвам се verb (give up)
- отричам се verb (decline association with)
- правя ренонс verb (fail to follow suit for not having it)
Chinese Mandarin
3 entries- 放棄 /放弃 verb (give up)
- 断绝关系 verb (decline association with)
- 斷絕 /断绝關係 /关系 verb (decline association with)
Czech
4 entries- vzdát se verb (give up)
- vzdát se verb (surrender a right or trust)
- zapudit verb (decline association with)
- zavrhnout verb (decline association with)
Danish
1 entries- give afkald verb (make renunciation)
Dutch
3 entries- opgeven verb (give up)
- verzaken verb (fail to follow suit for not having it)
- verzaken (aan) verb (make renunciation)
Esperanto
1 entries- malkonfesi verb (decline association with)
Estonian
1 entries- lahti ütlema verb (decline association with)
Finnish
4 entries- antaa periksi verb (give up)
- hylätä verb (abandon, forsake an action)
- kieltää verb (decline association with)
- luopua verb (abandon, forsake an action)
German
4 entries- abstreiten verb (decline association with)
- aufgeben verb (give up)
- aufgeben verb (abandon, forsake an action)
- desavouieren verb (decline association with)
Hungarian
4 entries- abbahagy verb (abandon, forsake an action)
- elhagy verb (abandon, forsake an action)
- felad verb (give up)
- felad verb (abandon, forsake an action)
Irish
2 entries- tabhair suas verb (give up)
- tréig verb (abandon, forsake an action)
Italian
4 entries- abbandonare verb (abandon, forsake an action)
- abdicare verb (give up)
- arrendersi verb (surrender a right or trust)
- ricusare verb (decline association with)
Latin
1 entries- renuntio verb (decline association with)
Norwegian
4 entries- avsverge verb (decline association with)
- fornekte verb (decline association with)
- forsake verb (give up)
- frasi verb (surrender a right or trust)
Old Irish
1 entries- do·beir druimm fri verb (abandon, forsake an action)
Romanian
4 entries- abandona verb (abandon, forsake an action)
- lepăda verb (give up)
- renunța verb (give up)
- renunța verb (decline association with)
Russian
4 entries- отве́ргнуть verb (decline association with)
- отверга́ть verb (decline association with)
- отка́зываться verb (surrender a right or trust)
- отка́зываться от verb (give up)
Sanskrit
2 entries- जहाति verb (decline association with)
- जहाति verb (abandon, forsake an action)
Scottish Gaelic
1 entries- àicheidh verb (decline association with)
Serbo-Croatian
4 entries- dići ruke verb (abandon, forsake an action)
- napustiti verb (abandon, forsake an action)
- odustati verb (give up)
- odustati verb (surrender a right or trust)
Spanish
4 entries- abjurar verb (give up)
- abrenunciar (desus.) verb (give up)
- delejar (desus.) verb (give up)
- renunciar verb (give up)
Swedish
1 entries- avsäga sig verb (give up)
Tamil
3 entries- துற verb (give up)
- துற verb (decline association with)
- துற verb (abandon, forsake an action)
Tocharian B
1 entries- ār verb (abandon, forsake an action)
Vietnamese
1 entries- từ bỏ verb (give up)
Sample sentences
18 total sentences available.
I do plainly and ingenuously confess that I am guilty of corruption, and do renounce all defense. I beseech your Lordships to be merciful to a broken reed.
Source: tatoeba (892740)
Everybody knows the line “The boy didn't crack under interrogation”, but nowadays many people don’t know the continuation: it is a verse about a boy who died, having refused to renounce his Komsomol membership.
Source: tatoeba (1525481)
Instead of being esteemed for these discoveries, he was sentenced to renounce them, or the opinions resulting from them, as a damnable heresy.
Source: tatoeba (1530020)
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