RENOUNCE
\ɹɪnˈa͡ʊns], \ɹɪnˈaʊns], \ɹ_ɪ_n_ˈaʊ_n_s]\
Definitions of RENOUNCE
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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turn away from; give up; "I am foreswearing women forever"
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cast off or disown; "She renounced her husband"; "The parents repudiated their son"
By Princeton University
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turn away from; give up; "I am foreswearing women forever"
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cast off or disown; "She renounced her husband"; "The parents repudiated their son"
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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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.
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To cast off or reject deliberately; to disown; to dismiss; to forswear.
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To disclaim having a card of (the suit led) by playing a card of another suit.
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To make renunciation.
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To decline formally, as an executor or a person entitled to letters of administration, to take out probate or letters.
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Act of renouncing.
By Oddity Software
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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.
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To cast off or reject deliberately; to disown; to dismiss; to forswear.
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To disclaim having a card of (the suit led) by playing a card of another suit.
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To make renunciation.
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To decline formally, as an executor or a person entitled to letters of administration, to take out probate or letters.
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Act of renouncing.
By Noah Webster.
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To disown; cast off; as, to renounce one's heir; to give up; as, to renounce a hope.
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Renouncer, renouncement.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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To disclaim: to disown: to reject publicly and finally: to forsake.
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To neglect to follow suit at cards.
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
By James Champlin Fernald
