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Renounce vs Renown - What's the difference?

renounce | renown |

As nouns the difference between renounce and renown

is that renounce is (card games) an act of while renown is fame; celebrity; wide recognition.

As a verb renounce

is to give up, resign, surrender.

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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    renown

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • Fame; celebrity; wide recognition.
  • * Dryden
    • Nor envy we thy great renown , nor grudge thy victory.
  • * 1922 , (James Joyce), '' Episode 12, ''The Cyclops
    • There sleep the mighty dead as in life they slept, warriors and princes of high renown .
  • Reports of nobleness or exploits; praise.
  • * Shakespeare
    • This famous duke of Milan, / Of whom so often I have heard renown .

    See also

    * renowned