In context|transitive|lang=en terms the difference between renounce and abjure
is that
renounce is {{context|transitive|lang=en}} to abandon, forsake, discontinue (an action, habit, intention, etc), sometimes by open declaration while
abjure is {{context|transitive|lang=en}} to abstain from; to avoid; to shun.
As verbs the difference between renounce and abjure
is that
renounce is {{context|transitive|lang=en}} to give up, resign, surrender while
abjure is {{context|transitive|lang=en}} to renounce upon oath; to forswear; to disavow {{defdate|first attested around 1350 to 1470}}
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As a noun renounce
is {{context|card games|lang=en}} an act of [[#verb|renouncing]].
Other Comparisons: What's the difference?
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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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
References
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