has abjured
- present perfect of abjure (3rd person singular).
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
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 Cather, Willa Sibert
It is understood that Dr. Hollis has abjured the society of all men other than her patients and such of her professional confrères as she is obliged to consult or work with.
From The Tracer of Lost Persons by Chambers, Robert W. (Robert William)
In some strange way I'm sure that he has abjured resignation and renunciation; I feel that he is in the throes of something—he is suffering, suffering agony; and I want to be with him.
From In a Mysterious Way by Warner, Anne
The man who has abjured his convictions may also have betrayed his friends.
From No Surrender by Werner, E. T. C. (Edward Theodore Chalmers)
