Abjured

Even his critics within the jihadist movement describe a humble man who leads by example and has abjured every material comfort for a life dedicated to defending his conception of Islam. ❋ Peter L. Bergen (2011)

Democracies, in particular, over a very long period of time, have very definitely abjured their use, which has brought us to the present situation, fraught as it is with destructive implications. ❋ Robert Eisenman (2011)

The slogan stuck and helped encourage a conception of jazz that abjured the predictable. ❋ Eric Felten (2010)

Many are content to seal off any discussion of gay matters with a simple declaration that God has abjured it as "an abomination." ❋ Eliot Daley (2011)

St Christopher was baptized and abjured his erstwhile human-eating. ❋ M_francis (2009)

On the morning of June 22, 1633 in the hall of the convent of Santa Maria sopra Minvera in Rome, Galileo Galilei knelt before the Lord-Cardinal Inquisitors-General and publicly abjured his false opinion that the sun was the motionless center of the universe. ❋ Matt J. Rossano (2011)

Thus abjured, Sigmund, the golden-haired, surveyed it all, and the frost-rimmed wolf-dogs and the vapor breaths of the men. ❋ Unknown (2010)

He said the majority's "pose of judicial humility" in trying to preserve the statute by turning it into a prohibition of bribes and kickbacks is really just "wielding a power we long ago abjured: the power to define new federal crimes." ❋ Unknown (2010)

In Europe, Hartz noted, conservatism was the ideology of the aristocracy, and as such it enshrined the values of hierarchy, deference, tradition; it abjured revolution while calling upon the ruling class to provide the unwashed many with the governance they so sorely need. ❋ Unknown (2010)

[I want] abjure my [post] ❋ Yudhii (2010)

Person A: Quick, [cast] an [abjuration] spell! Person B: I can't; I'm a [conjurer]. ❋ Deathinacan (2013)

The gangstahs of [east coast] abjured our totally [hetro] practices to [promote] their homo ones. ❋ AsadZero2 (2011)