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Revoke vs Renunciation - What's the difference?

revoke | renunciation |

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

  • To cancel or invalidate by withdrawing or reversing
  • Your driver's license will be revoked .
  • 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
  • The faint sprite he did revoke again, / To her frail mansion of morality.
  • (obsolete) To hold back; to repress; to restrain.
  • * Spenser
  • [She] still strove their sudden rages to revoke .
  • (obsolete) To draw back; to withdraw.
  • (Spenser)
  • (obsolete) To call back to mind; to recollect.
  • * South
  • 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)
  • 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.
  • renunciation

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • the act of rejecting]] or [[renounce, renouncing something as invalid
  • The President's renunciation of the treaty has upset Congress.
  • the resignation of an ecclesiastical office
  • The bishop's renunciation was on account of his ill health.

    See also

    * abjurement * repudiation