Renounce vs Forthink - What's the difference?
renounce | forthink |
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 cause distress or regret to; cause to regret or repent; to vex.
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*:with hys swerd lyghtly he smote of hir hede before kynge Arthur / allas for shame sayd Arthur why haue ye done so / ye haue shamed me and al my Courte / for this was a lady that I was be holden to / and hyther she came vnder my sauf conduyte / I shalle neuer foryeue you that trespas / Sir said Balen me forthynketh of your displeasyr / for this same lady was the vntruest lady lyuynge
To regret; repent.
To regret.
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*:So cam he to the chamber dore / and wold haue entryd / And anone a voyce said to hym / Flee launcelot / and entre not / for thou oughtest not to doo hit / And yf thou entre / thou shalt forthynke hit / Thenne he withdrewe hym abak ryght heuy
To repent, be sorry for.
To change one's mind about; to renounce.
*1596 , (Edmund Spenser), (The Faerie Queene) , IV.12:
*:Then gan he thinke, perforce with sword and targe / Her forth to fetch, and Proteus to constraine; / But soone he gan such folly to forthinke againe.
As verbs the difference between renounce and forthink
is that renounce is to give up, resign, surrender while forthink is to cause distress or regret to; cause to regret or repent; to vex.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.