Renounce

Word RENOUNCE
Character 8
Hyphenation re nounce
Pronunciations /ɹɪˈnaʊns/

Definitions and meanings of "Renounce"

What do we mean by renounce?

To give up (a title or possession, for example), especially by formal announcement. intransitive verb

To decide or declare that one will no longer adhere to (a belief or position); reject. intransitive verb

To decide or declare that one will no longer engage in (a practice) or use (something): synonym: relinquish. intransitive verb

To disclaim one's association with (a person or country, for example). intransitive verb

To give up, relinquish, or reject something. intransitive verb

In card-games in which the rule is to follow suit, the playing of a card of a different suit from that led. noun

To declare against; disown; disclaim; abjure; forswear; refuse to own, acknowledge, or practise.

To cast off or reject, as a connection or possession; forsake.

In card-playing, to play (a suit) different from what is led: as, he renounced spades.

To declare a renunciation.

In card-games in which the rule is to follow suit, to play a card of a different suit from that led; in a restricted sense, to have to play a card of another suit when the player has no card of the suit led. Compare revoke.

To declare against; to reject or decline formally; to refuse to own or acknowledge as belonging to one; to disclaim. transitive verb

To cast off or reject deliberately; to disown; to dismiss; to forswear. transitive verb

To disclaim having a card of (the suit led) by playing a card of another suit. transitive verb

To decline to act as the executor of a will. transitive verb

To make renunciation. intransitive verb

To decline formally, as an executor or a person entitled to letters of administration, to take out probate or letters. intransitive verb

Act of renouncing. noun

An act of renouncing. noun

An act of renouncing.

To give up, refuse, or resign usually by formal declaration Urban Dictionary

Renouncing Lucifer is the process of someone giving up an acceptance of Satanism and Lucifer. Urban Dictionary

Synonyms and Antonyms for Renounce

The word "renounce" in example sentences

We were contemptible to attend to which Edgar Scott, a partial of of unequivocally prolonged standing, has motionless to renounce from a Society, given he feels which he can no longer have a prolonged expostulate home after cooking meetings. ❋ Admin (2009)

What I renounce is relying on the proclamation of one language user (e.g., ❋ Unknown (2009)

And since it has been determined that love is service, and since to renounce is to serve, then Jees Uck, who was merely a woman of a swart-skinned breed, loved with a great love. ❋ Unknown (2010)

If men through fear, fraud or mistake, should in terms renounce and give up any essential natural right, the eternal law of reason and the great end of society, would absolutely vacate such renunciation; the right to freedom being the gift of God Almighty, it is not in the power of Man to alienate this gift, and voluntarily become a slave. ❋ Unknown (2009)

I didn't use the word renounce because it has a specific, legal meaning when talking about citizenship. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Brady, however, called on Quinn to apologize and "renounce" Hendon, he told the Chicago Tribune. ❋ The Huffington Post News Team (2010)

Yep, that's "renounce," people, just like Gandhi's exhortation that we "have nothing to do with power." ❋ Sander Hicks (2010)

Jesus warned against the intoxication of power, especially political power, and advised his followers to "renounce" it. ❋ Sander Hicks (2010)

The only thing that is in error is the term "renounce" as it applies to polygamy. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Curiously, I see nothing about a requirement to "renounce" one's religious beliefs, but that hasn't stopped Ezra from making that claim over and over and over all emphasis added: ❋ LuLu (2008)

For quite some time, Ezra has claimed that Alberta HRC judge Andreachuk, in handing down a ruling against frothing homophobe Stephen Boissoin, required Boissoin to "renounce" his faith: ❋ LuLu (2008)

I can't "renounce" something I didn't say myself, but in any case, putting the sentence in context of GBJ's whole post yields a reading along the lines of: "the people who post toxic ugly stuff and by whom I myself got ganged up on and abused for daring to question Israel's legal and moral right to go Slobo on the Palestinians..." don't go there to be enlightened but to have their existing prejudices reinforced. ❋ Unknown (2002)

Laura (Riding) Jackson did "renounce" poetry; once denounced sexual intercourse, seeing it as a means of subjugating women; and recognized, in poems such as "Mater Invita," the stifling effect that motherhood could have on a woman's being. ❋ Friedman, Elizabeth (1994)

Turning from these later parasites, [45] which live on their parent gods and yet tend to reduce them, we now revert to that happiness hereafter to which looks forward the epic knight that has not been tempted to 'renounce' desire. ❋ Edward Washburn Hopkins (1894)

Harangue of Bastille Conquerors, come to 'renounce' any special recompense, any peculiar place at the solemnity; -- since the Centre Grenadiers rather grumble. ❋ Thomas Carlyle (1838)

South Carolina Democratic Party Chairwoman Carol Fowler called on her state's Republican congressmen to "renounce" Boehner's comments, accusing him of looking to "break America's promise to her seniors." ❋ Unknown (2010)

1.Many of his [former] supporters have renounced him. 2.He renounced his [old] [way of life]. ❋ Compadre (2010)

The man is in [the process] of [renouncing Lucifer] in order to no longer be a [Satanist]. ❋ ScienceBurt (2020)

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