Resignation vs Renounce - What's the difference?
resignation | renounce |
the act of resigning
a written or oral declaration that one resigns
state of uncomplaining, utter frustration
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.
As nouns the difference between resignation and renounce
is that resignation is resignation (state of uncomplaining frustration) while renounce is (card games) an act of.As a verb renounce is
to give up, resign, surrender.resignation
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(en noun)Anagrams
*renounce
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(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.