Renounce vs Abjuration - What's the difference?
renounce | abjuration |
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.
A solemn recantation or renunciation on oath; as, an abjuration of heresy.
A repudiation on oath of a religious or political principle.
The act of abjuring.
As nouns the difference between renounce and abjuration
is that renounce is (card games) an act of while abjuration is a solemn recantation or renunciation on oath; as, an abjuration of heresy .As a verb renounce
is to give up, resign, surrender.renounce
English
Verb
(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.