abjure
verb (used with object)
to renounce, repudiate, or retract, especially with formal solemnity; recant.
had abjured
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past perfectof abjure.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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Now he had abjured the Revolution, his father would be only too glad to have him back, to see him married to a woman of Arithelli's charm and breeding.
From The Hippodrome by Rachel Hayward
Her saints, too, had told her "that it was great pity she had abjured to save her life."
From The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 07 by Rossiter Johnson
Before Holbein came back from England many churches had abjured all pictures.
From Holbein by Beatrice Fortescue
Catherine II's policy was therefore to force back internal anarchy upon the nation that had abjured it, and to prevent the new Constitution from being carried into effect.
From Kościuszko A Biography by Monica M. (Monica Mary) Gardner
I thought you had abjured eclecticism; yet Cousin is its apostle.
From Beulah by Augusta J. (Augusta Jane) Evans
