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Revoke vs Abjure - What's the difference?

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Revoke is a related term of abjure.


As verbs the difference between revoke and abjure

is that revoke is to cancel or invalidate by withdrawing or reversing while abjure is .

As a noun revoke

is the act of revoking in a game of cards.

revoke

English

Verb

  • To cancel or invalidate by withdrawing or reversing
  • Your driver's license will be revoked .
  • To fail to follow suit in a game of cards when holding a card in that suit.
  • (obsolete) To call or bring back; to recall.
  • * Spenser
  • The faint sprite he did revoke again, / To her frail mansion of morality.
  • (obsolete) To hold back; to repress; to restrain.
  • * Spenser
  • [She] still strove their sudden rages to revoke .
  • (obsolete) To draw back; to withdraw.
  • (Spenser)
  • (obsolete) To call back to mind; to recollect.
  • * South
  • A man, by revoking and recollecting within himself former passages, will be still apt to inculcate these sad memories to his conscience.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of revoking in a game of cards.
  • A renege; a violation of important rules regarding the play of tricks in trick-taking card games serious enough to render the round invalid.
  • A violation ranked in seriousness somewhat below overt cheating, with the status of a more minor offense only because, when it happens, it is usually accidental.
  • abjure

    English

    Verb

    (abjur)
  • To renounce upon oath; to forswear; to disavow.
  • To abjure allegiance to a prince.
    To abjure the realm (to swear to abandon it forever).
  • (transitive, obsolete, historical) To cause one to renounce or recant.
  • To reject with solemnity; to abandon forever; to repudiate; to disclaim.
  • To abjure errors.
  • * 1610 , , act 5 scene 1
  • But this rough magic I here abjure [...]
  • To abstain from; to avoid; to shun.
  • Synonyms

    * renounce

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