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Renounce vs Abide - What's the difference?

renounce | abide |

As verbs the difference between renounce and abide

is that renounce is to give up, resign, surrender while abide is .

As a noun renounce

is (card games) an act of.

renounce

English

Noun

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

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    abide

    English

    Verb

  • *
  • *:Abide you here with the asse.
  • (label) To stay; to continue in a place; to remain stable or fixed in some state or condition; to be left.
  • *
  • *:Let every man abide in the same calling wherein he was called.
  • *
  • *:Let the damsel abide with us a few days.
  • (label) To endure; to remain; to last.
  • *1998 , Narrator ((Sam Elliot)), The Big Lebowski (film):
  • *:"The Dude abides ."
  • (label) To stand ready for; to await for someone; watch for.
  • *:
  • *:Allas sayd she that euer I sawe yow / but he that suffred vpon the crosse for alle mankynde he be vnto yow good conduyte and saufte / and alle the hole felauship / Ryght soo departed Launcelot / & fond his felauship that abode his comyng / and so they mounted on their horses / and rode thorou the strete of Camelot
  • *
  • *:Bonds and afflictions abide me.
  • *
  • (label) To endure without yielding; to withstand; await defiantly; to encounter; to persevere.
  • :
  • *
  • (label) To await submissively; accept without question; submit to.
  • *William Shakespeare, Richard II
  • *:To abide thy kingly doom.
  • (label) To bear patiently; to tolerate; to put up with; stand.
  • *
  • *:She could not abide Master Shallow.
  • (label) To pay for; to stand the consequences of; to answer for; to suffer for; to atone for.
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  • Usage notes

    * (bear patiently) Used in the negative form can't abide is used to indicate strong dislike.

    See also

    * dwell * live * reside * stay