Renounce

[rɪ'naʊns]

Definition

(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.

Typist: Nelda

Synonyms and Synonymous

v. a. [1]. Reject, repudiate, disclaim, disown, deny, decline, slight, abnegate, neglect, cast off, trample on.[2]. Relinquish, abandon, forego, resign, abjure, desert, forsake, forswear, leave, drop, lay down, lay aside, give up, cast off, give over, drop all idea of.

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Synonyms and Antonyms

SYN:Reject, abjure, disclaim, disown, forego, disavow, deny, quit, resign, abandon,recant, relinquish, repudiate

ANT:Acknowledge, recognize, claim, maintain, assert, propound, own, vindicate,avow, profess, hold, retain, defend

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Definition

v.t. to disclaim: to disown: to reject publicly and finally: to forsake.—v.i. to fail to follow suit at cards.—n. a failure to follow suit at cards.—ns. Renounce′ment act of renouncing disclaiming or rejecting; Renoun′cer.

Edited by Enrico