renounce
Etymology
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Etymology
From
- IPA: /ɹɪˈnaʊns/
renounce (plural renounces)
- (card games) An act of renouncing.
renounce (renounces, present participle renouncing; simple past and past participle renounced)
- (transitive) To give up, resign, surrender.
- Synonyms: 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 ↗, [Act IV, scene vi]:
- This world I do renounce, and in your sights
Shake patiently my great affliction off.
- (transitive) To decline further association with someone or something, disown.
- Synonyms: disown, repudiate, Thesaurus:repudiate
- (transitive) To abandon, forsake, discontinue (an action, habit, intention, etc), sometimes by open declaration.
- (intransitive) To make a renunciation of something.
- 1687, [John Dryden], “(please specify the page number)”, in The Hind and the Panther. A Poem, in Three Parts, 2nd edition, London: […] Jacob Tonson […], →OCLC ↗:
- He of my sons who fails to make it good, / By one rebellious act renounces to my blood.
- (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.
- (intransitive, card games) To fail to follow suit; playing a card of a different suit when having no card of the suit led.
- German: aufgeben
- Italian: rinunciare, abdicare
- Russian: сдава́ться
- German: verleugnen, desavouieren, abstreiten, nichts mehr wissen wollen (von)
- Italian: ricusare
- Russian: отрека́ться
- German: aufgeben
- Italian: abbandonare
- Russian: отступа́ться
- German: verzichten
- Italian: rinunciare
- German: verzichten
- Italian: arrendersi
- Russian: отка́зываться
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