to renounce
69
6.3
- verb
- /rɪˈnaʊns/
- Formal
:
renunciar a
- Accept the Lord into your heart and renounce the ways of the beast.
- renounce any claim
- renounce the faith
- renounce violence
Yeah, but but still wouldn't renounce his faith or lack thereof.
- Yeah, but but still wouldn't renounce his faith or lack thereof.
- But he declared we will never renounce our values.
- I'm speaking as Anna Epstein now, but I renounce that because it is bigoted.
- So I'm now I have to renounce citizenship.
- We transfer these rights or we renounce these rights, right.
- But Alfred Wallace later renounced his belief on evolution when it comes to the mind.
- You know, they don't renounce the pleasures of life, of the flesh and so forth.
- And it is, it's far easier to achieve your material desires than it is to renounce them.
- And and he eventually renounced his his peerage as soon as it became possible, essentially.
- So the notion which it renounces is its own notion.
Examples
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From this moment on, I renounce my throne!
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I renounce the world and all its vanities.
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We transfer these rights or we renounce these rights, right.
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But he declared we will never renounce our values.
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Alex felt the need to renounce this, but he could not.
Fiction book (1997) -
He who would come with me, must renounce himself, and take up his cross, and follow me.
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Do you renounce the spiritual forces of wickedness, reject the evil power of this world, and repent of your sin?
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Anwar Al Awlaki renounced his citizenship.
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That's a letter of abdication renouncing your claims to the throne and the claims of your entire family.
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She decided to renounce her claim to the inheritance after much consideration.
Synonyms
788
1.2
To leave a job or position
722
4.4
To stop fighting and give control or things to someone else, often when forced
401
3.8
Stop supporting an idea or plan
363
2.3
To hand a job or control you have to someone else
123
5.1
To stop doing a job, duty or action after someone tells you to
69
2.6
To give up a right, claim, or ownership of something
69
7.2
To give up control, a right, or something you own
52
4.5
Leave a place or job so it is free for someone else
44
8.6
Say publicly that you no longer believe something you said before
33
8.2
To refuse to accept or be linked to something
33
7.7
To say you are not responsible for or connected to something
23
8.0
To give up a position of power, for example a king or queen
22
3.7
Give up a right or title to something
20
4.9
To stop doing a job or role politely
13
5.5
To give something to another person or group against your will
3
9.9
To give up a belief or support publicly under pressure
2
9.6
To promise to give up a belief, habit, or practice
1
8.4
To officially take back a promise or plan
1
7.4
Give something to another person because you are forced to do so
1
9.9
To publicly promise to give up a belief, habit, or claim
1
9.9
To leave a religion and stop believing its teachings
1
7.5
To stop being a member of a group or organization
To officially give up power, rights, or a position
To withdraw from a promise or agreement, often officially under pressure
Antonyms
How Abandoned
Surface Forms
Morphology
renounce = re + nounce
Although the form resembles the prefix 're-' + a root seen in words like 'announce'/'denounce', 'nounce' is not a standalone English word and the 're-' here is not the productive 'again' meaning, so learners cannot derive 'give up' from the parts.
Etymology
Renounce comes from the parts re- ('again') and nounce as in announce ('to tell'). So to renounce something is to say you no longer accept it, which is why it means to give it up or refuse it publicly.