Sekirov Dictionary

renounce

/ɹɪˈnaʊns/

verb 7
noun 1
forms 5

verb7

To give up, resign, surrender.
•
To make a renunciation of something.
- He of my sons who fails to make it good, / By one rebellious act renounces to my blood. — 1687
•
To surrender formally some right or trust.
- Dryden died without a will, and his widow having renounced, his son Charles administered on June 10. — 1870
•
To cast off, repudiate.
- This world I do renounce, and in your sights Shake patiently my great affliction off. — 1603
To decline further association with someone or something, disown.
To abandon, forsake, discontinue (an action, habit, intention, etc), sometimes by open declaration.
To fail to follow suit; playing a card of a different suit when having no card of the suit led.

noun1

An act of renouncing.

forms

renounced · renouncing · renounces · renounceth · renouncest

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