renounce

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   An act of renouncing.

2. 2

   To give up, resign, surrender.

   • to renounce a title to land or to a throne
   • It is terrible to think of the power of the world even in a redeemed soul. Here was a maid who had drunk of the well of grace and tasted of God's mercies, and yet there were moments when she was ready to renounce her hope.
3. 3

   To cast off, repudiate.

   • This world I do renounce, and in your sights Shake patiently my great affliction off.
4. ›+ 5 more definitionsshow fewer

   1. 4

      To decline further association with someone or something, disown.

   2. 5

      To abandon, forsake, discontinue (an action, habit, intention, etc), sometimes by open…

      To abandon, forsake, discontinue (an action, habit, intention, etc), sometimes by open declaration.

      • […] some families renounced the use of a certain praenomen which had been disgraced by one of their name […]
      • His son Sidhartha had renounced material life and gone forth in search of enlightment. He received enlightment under a Bodhi tree at Gaya and became Buddha. Ashoka visited Gaya along with Upagupta and had darshan of Sambodhi.
      • Time is running out, so I renounce a spin on a Class 387 for a fast run to Paddington on another Class 800 - a shame as the weather was perfect for pictures. Even so, it's enjoyable - boy, can those trains shift under the wires.
   3. 6

      To make a renunciation of something.

      • He of my sons who fails to make it good, / By one rebellious act renounces to my blood.
   4. 7

      To surrender formally some right or trust.

      • Dryden died without a will, and his widow having renounced, his son Charles administered on June 10.
   5. 8

      To fail to follow suit

      To fail to follow suit; playing a card of a different suit when having no card of the suit led.

The neighborhood

• synonymforsay
• synonymforswear
• neighborannounce
• neighbordenounce
• neighborpronounce