Renounce vs Repeal - What's the difference?
renounce | repeal |
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 cancel, invalidate, annul.
To recall; to summon (a person) again.
* Shakespeare
To suppress; to repel.
* Milton
In lang=en terms the difference between renounce and repeal
is that renounce is to surrender formally some right or trust while repeal is to cancel, invalidate, annul.As nouns the difference between renounce and repeal
is that renounce is (card games) an act of while repeal is an act or instance of repealing.As verbs the difference between renounce and repeal
is that renounce is to give up, resign, surrender while repeal is to cancel, invalidate, annul.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
*repeal
English
Verb
(en verb)- to repeal a law
- The banished Bolingbroke repeals himself, / And with uplifted arms is safe arrived.
- Whence Adam soon repealed / The doubts that in his heart arose.