Renounce vs Forgo - What's the difference?
renounce | forgo | Related terms |
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 let pass, to leave alone
To do without, to abandon
To refrain from, to abstain from, to pass up, to withgo.
Renounce is a related term of forgo.
As nouns the difference between renounce and forgo
is that renounce is (card games) an act of while forgo is joint.As a verb renounce
is to give up, resign, surrender.As an adjective forgo is
turning, revolving, rotating, whirling, circulating.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
*forgo
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Alternative forms
* foregoVerb
- The only way to avoid shame is to forgo acting shamefully.