Prescind vs Renounce - What's the difference?
prescind | renounce |
To abstract (from); to dismiss from consideration.
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To pay exclusive attention to.
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(rfv-sense) To cut off, detach or separate something
(rfv-sense) To think about multiple things individually
(rfv-sense) To stop thinking about something
To give up, resign, surrender.
To cast off, repudiate.
* Shakespeare
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
To surrender formally some right or trust.
* W. D. Christie
(card games) To fail to follow suit; playing a card of a different suit when having no card of the suit led.
As verbs the difference between prescind and renounce
is that prescind is to abstract (from); to dismiss from consideration while renounce is to give up, resign, surrender.As a noun renounce is
(card games) an act of.prescind
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*renounce
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(renounc)- to renounce a title to land or to a throne
- This world I do renounce , and in your sights / Shake patiently my great affliction off.
- He of my sons who fails to make it good, / By one rebellious act renounces to my blood.
- Dryden died without a will, and his widow having renounced , his son Charles administered on June 10.