abjure
verb (used with object)
to renounce, repudiate, or retract, especially with formal solemnity; recant.
has abjured
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present perfectof abjure (3rd person singular).present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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Nyerere has abjured personal wealth, and throughout his presidency collected a salary that was lower than that of his Cabinet ministers.
From Time Magazine Archive
It is the saying of a French writer, that the novel of to-day has abjured both the past and the future, and lives wholly in the present.
From Studies in Literature and History by John O. Miller
So, the boy Duke of Berwick has abjured.
From The Huguenot: (Volumes I-III) A Tale of the French Protestants. by G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford) James
He has abjured tea-table psychology, and the analysis of figures in the carpet and subtile dissections of intellectual impotencies, and the diverting game of words and the whole literature of the nerves.
From A Collection of Stories, Reviews and Essays by Willa Sibert Cather
The man who has abjured his convictions may also have betrayed his friends.
From No Surrender by E. T. C. (Edward Theodore Chalmers) Werner
