To renounce is to officially give up or turn away from. People on a diet usually renounce pizza and chocolate cake, for example.
To declare against; to reject or decline formally; to refuse to own or acknowledge as belonging to one; to disclaim;
Verb
cast off or disown; "She renounced her husband"; "The parents repudiated their son"
Verb
turn away from; give up; "I am foreswearing women forever"
Verb
leave (a job, post, post, or position) voluntarily; "She vacated the position when she got pregnant"; "The chairman resigned when he was found to have misappropriated funds"
Verb
give up, such as power, as of monarchs and emperors, or duties and obligations; "The King abdicated when he married a divorcee"
v. t.
To declare against; to reject or decline formally; to
refuse to own or acknowledge as belonging to one; to disclaim; as, to
renounce a title to land or to a throne.
v. t.
To cast off or reject deliberately; to disown; to
dismiss; to forswear.
v. t.
To disclaim having a card of (the suit led) by playing
a card of another suit.
v. i.
To make renunciation.
v. i.
To decline formally, as an executor or a person
entitled to letters of administration, to take out probate or letters.
n.
Act of renouncing.
Renounce
This world I do renounce, and in your sights Shake patiently my great affliction off.3.
From Thebes my birth I own; . . . since no disgrace Can force me to renounce the honor of my race.
Either to die the death, or to abjure Forever the society of man.
Ease would recant Vows made in pain, as violent and void.
Renounce
He of my sons who fails to make it good, By one rebellious act renounces to my blood.2.
Dryden died without a will, and his widow having renounced, his son Charles administered on June 10.
Renounce
To declare against; to reject or decline formally; to refuse to own or acknowledge as belonging to one; to disclaim;
To make renunciation.
Act of renouncing.
Usage Examples
Experience is a revelation in the light of which we renounce our errors of youth for those of age.
We have become aware of the responsibility for our attitude towards the dark pages in our history. We have understood that bad service is done to the nation by those who are impelling to renounce that past.
The best people renounce all for one goal, the eternal fame of mortals but most people stuff themselves like cattle.
Great dislike to the Bible was shown by those who conversed with me about it, and several have remarked to me, at different times, that if it were not for that book, Catholics would never be led to renounce their own faith.
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Other Usage ExamplesNo one who has lived even for a fleeting moment for something other than life in its conventional sense and has experienced the exaltation that this feeling produces can then renounce his new freedom so easily.
Alaska is what happens when Willy Wonka and the witch from Hansel and Gretel elope, buy a place together upstate, renounce their sweet teeth, and turn into health fanatics.
Crave for a thing, you will get it. Renounce the craving, the object will follow you by itself.
Those who desire to rise as high as our human condition allows, must renounce intellectual pride, the omnipotence of clear thinking, belief in the absolute power of logic.
It was in our power to cause the Arab governments to renounce the policy of strength toward Israel by turning it into a demonstration of weakness.
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