Renounce vs Renunciate - What's the difference?
renounce | renunciate |
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.
(rare) Of, pertaining to, or being a .
Renunciate is a related term of renounce.
As nouns the difference between renounce and renunciate
is that renounce is an act of renouncing while renunciate is one who has renounced.As a verb renounce
is to give up, resign, surrender.As an adjective renunciate is
of, pertaining to, or being a renunciate.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.