renounce
English
Etymology
From Old French renoncier (French renoncer), from Latin renuntiare.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɹɪˈnaʊns/
- Rhymes: -aʊns
Audio (UK) (file)
Noun
renounce (plural renounces)
- (card games) An act of renouncing.
Related terms
- renunciation
Verb
renounce (third-person singular simple present renounces, present participle renouncing, simple past and past participle renounced)
- (transitive) To give up, resign, surrender.
- Synonym: (obsolete) atsake
- to renounce a title to land or to a throne
- 1902, John Buchan, The Outgoing of the Tide
- 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.
- (transitive) To cast off, repudiate.
- c. 1603–1606, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of King Lear”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act IV, scene vi]:
- This world I do renounce, and in your sights
Shake patiently my great affliction off.
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- (transitive) To decline further association with someone or something, disown.
- Synonyms: disown, repudiate; see also Thesaurus:repudiate
- (transitive) To abandon, forsake, discontinue (an action, habit, intention, etc), sometimes by open declaration.
- 2012 May 18, Sri B. G. Ramesh, Sri M. N. Suresh Kumar, transl., Ashoka, Bangalore: Sapna Book House (P) Ltd., →ISBN, page 14:
- 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.
- 2020 December 2, Paul Bigland, “My weirdest and wackiest Rover yet”, in Rail, page 68:
- 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.
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- (intransitive) To make a renunciation of something.
- 1687, [John Dryden], “(please specify the page number(s))”, in The Hind and the Panther. A Poem, in Three Parts, 2nd edition, London: Printed for Jacob Tonson […], OCLC 460679539:
- He of my sons who fails to make it good, / By one rebellious act renounces to my blood.
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- (intransitive) To surrender formally some right or trust.
- 1870 William Dougal Christie, Memoir of John Dryden
- Dryden died without a will, and his widow having renounced, his son Charles administered on June 10.
- 1870 William Dougal Christie, Memoir of John Dryden
- (intransitive, card games) To fail to follow suit; playing a card of a different suit when having no card of the suit led.
Synonyms
- forsay
- forswear
Derived terms
- renounceable
- renouncement
- renouncer
Related terms
- announce
- denounce
- pronounce
Translations
give up
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decline association with
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abandon, forsake an action
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make renunciation
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surrender a right or trust
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fail to follow suit for not having it
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References
- renounce in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913