renounce
verb (used with object), re·nounced, re·nounc·ing.
verb (used without object), re·nounced, re·nounc·ing.
- to play a card of a different suit from that led.
- to abandon or give up a suit led.
- to fail to follow the suit led.
noun
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relinquish, quit, deny, spurn, repudiate, waive, disavow, forgo, forswear, eschew, discard, disown, recant, forsake, decline, abdicate, dump, arrogate, abjure, defectExamples from the Web for renounce
Contemporary Examples of renounce
If people could only renounce their hateful ideas, they could learn to love one another.
Context: Rumored to be the last words of the French enlightenment writer, when a priest asked him to renounce Satan.
Unlike her brother, however, Laura does not renounce her love, but determines to hide it from view.
Kuzenkov is the only humane Communist Party member in the book, which is another way of saying he must renounce the Party.
Louis looked at me with a startled air, but recovering himself said kindly, “Of course I renounce the—what is it I must renounce?”
Read ‘The King in Yellow,’ the ‘True Detective’ Reference That’s the Key to the ShowRobert W. Chambers
February 20, 2014
Historical Examples of renounce
Now my father is dead, I will have nothing to do with the world, and will renounce it for ever.
The Imaginary InvalidMolire
She was to renounce her father and take the name of Bohun———.
The Fortune HunterLouis Joseph Vance
Will you undertake to make her renounce the earl, who, I believe, is the devil incarnate?
Maid MarianThomas Love Peacock
He renounced his country; but could not renounce his character.
Gomez AriasJoaqun Telesforo de Trueba y Coso
Attend carefully then to this necessary deity, and renounce the other.
The Memoirs of Count Grammont, CompleteAnthony Hamilton