Abjure
[əb'dʒʊə;əb'dʒɔː] or [əb'dʒʊr]
解釋/意思:
(verb.) formally reject or disavow a formerly held belief, usually under pressure; 'He retracted his earlier statements about his religion'; 'She abjured her beliefs'.
埃塞雷德編輯--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(v. t.) To renounce upon oath; to forswear; to disavow; as, to abjure allegiance to a prince. To abjure the realm, is to swear to abandon it forever.
(v. t.) To renounce or reject with solemnity; to recant; to abandon forever; to reject; repudiate; as, to abjure errors.
(v. i.) To renounce on oath.
校對:索尼亚
同義詞及近義詞:
v. a. [1]. Renounce (upon oath), relinquish, forego, reject, forswear, abandon, ABNEGATE, give up, cast off.[2]. Retract, revoke, recant, recall, withdraw, disavow, take back.
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同義詞及反義詞:
SYN:Renounce, deny, apostatize, discard, recant, disclaim, disavow, repudiate,revoke, retract, disown
ANT:Profess, assert, demand, vindicate, claim, cherish, advocate, retain,acknowledge, appropriate, hug
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解釋/意思:
v.t. to renounce on oath or solemnly: to recant: to repudiate.—n. Abjurā′tion official renunciation on oath of any principle or pretension.—adj. Abjur′atory.—n. Abjur′er.
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例句/造句/用法:
- On receiving this the victim might either openly abjure his former ways, or might fly from the country. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歷險記.
- Do not talk of reflection; from this moment I abjure it; this is my only happy moment during a long interval of time. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- I am half resolved to go to the Grand Master, abjure the Order to his very teeth, and refuse to act the brutality which his tyranny has imposed on me. 沃爾特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- The plain truth is, I have forsworn and abjured the whole business these many years, and my soul is sick of it. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- The protesting minority were forgotten in the throng which abjured and came; and the audience was almost as brilliant as the show. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 快樂之家.
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