Ceded vs Renounce - What's the difference?
ceded | renounce |
(cede)
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To give up, give way, give away.
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 ceded and renounce
is that ceded is past tense of cede while renounce is to give up, resign, surrender.As a noun renounce is
an act of renouncing.ceded
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(head)cede
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(ced)- Edward decided to cede the province.
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.