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Renounce vs Eschew - What's the difference?

renounce | eschew |

As verbs the difference between renounce and eschew

is that renounce is to give up, resign, surrender while eschew is (formal) to avoid; to shun, to shy away from.

As a noun renounce

is (card games) an act of.

renounce

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (card games) An act of .

    • Related terms

    * renunciation

    Verb

    (renounc)
  • To give up, resign, surrender.
    • to renounce a title to land or to a throne
  • To cast off, repudiate.
  • * Shakespeare
    • This world I do renounce , and in your sights / Shake patiently my great affliction off.
  • To decline further association with someone or something, disown.
  • To abandon, forsake, discontinue (an action, habit, intention, etc), sometimes by open declaration.
  • To make a renunciation of something.
  • * Dryden
    • He of my sons who fails to make it good, / By one rebellious act renounces to my blood.
  • To surrender formally some right or trust.
  • * W. D. Christie
    • Dryden died without a will, and his widow having renounced , his son Charles administered on June 10.
  • (card games) To fail to follow suit; playing a card of a different suit when having no card of the suit led.

    • Derived terms

    * renounceable * renouncement * renouncer

    Related terms

    * announce * denounce * pronounce

    References

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    eschew

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (formal) To avoid; to shun, to shy away from.

    • Usage notes

    * The verb is not normally applied to the avoidance or shunning of a person or physical object, but rather, only to the avoidance or shunning of an idea, concept, or other intangible.

    Quotations

    {{timeline , 1500s=1599 , 1900s=1927 , 2010s=2014}} * *: What cannot be eschew’d must be embrac’d. * 1927 , *: He could afford no servants, and would admit but few visitors to his absolute solitude; eschewing close friendships and receiving his rare acquaintances in one of the three ground-floor rooms which he kept in order. * '>citation

    Derived terms

    * (l)

    Related terms

    * shy

    References