Revoke vs Renunciation - What's the difference?
revoke | renunciation |
To cancel or invalidate by withdrawing or reversing
To fail to follow suit in a game of cards when holding a card in that suit.
(obsolete) To call or bring back; to recall.
* Spenser
(obsolete) To hold back; to repress; to restrain.
* Spenser
(obsolete) To draw back; to withdraw.
(obsolete) To call back to mind; to recollect.
* South
The act of revoking in a game of cards.
A renege; a violation of important rules regarding the play of tricks in trick-taking card games serious enough to render the round invalid.
A violation ranked in seriousness somewhat below overt cheating, with the status of a more minor offense only because, when it happens, it is usually accidental.
the act of rejecting]] or [[renounce, renouncing something as invalid
the resignation of an ecclesiastical office
As nouns the difference between revoke and renunciation
is that revoke is the act of revoking in a game of cards while renunciation is the act of rejecting or renouncing something as invalid.As a verb revoke
is to cancel or invalidate by withdrawing or reversing.revoke
English
Verb
- Your driver's license will be revoked .
- The faint sprite he did revoke again, / To her frail mansion of morality.
- [She] still strove their sudden rages to revoke .
- (Spenser)
- A man, by revoking and recollecting within himself former passages, will be still apt to inculcate these sad memories to his conscience.
Noun
(en noun)renunciation
English
(wikipedia renunciation)Noun
(en noun)- The President's renunciation of the treaty has upset Congress.
- The bishop's renunciation was on account of his ill health.