Renounce vs Declaim - What's the difference?
renounce | declaim |
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.
To object to something vociferously; to rail against in speech.
To recite, e.g., poetry, in a theatrical way; to speak for rhetorical display; to speak pompously, noisily, or theatrically; bemouth; to make an empty speech; to rehearse trite arguments in debate; to rant.
* Bancroft
To speak rhetorically; to make a formal speech or oration; specifically, to recite a speech, poem, etc., in public as a rhetorical exercise; to practice public speaking.
As verbs the difference between renounce and declaim
is that renounce is to give up, resign, surrender while declaim is to object to something vociferously; to rail against in speech.As a noun renounce
is (card games) an act of.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.
Derived terms
* renounceable * renouncement * renouncerReferences
*declaim
English
Verb
(en verb)- Grenville seized the opportunity to declaim on the repeal of the stamp act.
- The students declaim twice a week.