renounce
verbEtymology From Old French renoncier (French renoncer), from Latin renūntiō. Doublet of renunciate.
7 senses
- 1To give up, resign, surrender.
- 2To cast off, repudiate.
- 3To decline further association with someone or something, disown.
- 4To abandon, forsake, discontinue (an action, habit…
- 5To make a renunciation of something.
- 6To surrender formally some right or trust.
- 7To fail to follow suit; playing a card of a different…
1
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.1902, John Buchan, The Outgoing of the Tide:
2
To cast off, repudiate.
- This world I do renounce, and in your sights Shake patiently my great affliction off.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]:
3
To decline further association with someone or something, disown.
4
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 […]1945, E[lizabeth] G[idley] Withycombe, “Introduction”, in The Oxford Dictionary of English Christian Names, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page xv:
- 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.2012 May 18, Sri B. G. Ramesh, translated by Sri M. N. Suresh Kumar, Ashoka, Bangalore: Sapna Book House (P) Ltd., →ISBN, page 14:
1 more example
- 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.2020 December 2, Paul Bigland, “My weirdest and wackiest Rover yet”, in Rail, page 68:
5
To make a renunciation of something.
- He of my sons who fails to make it good, / By one rebellious act renounces to my blood.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:
6
To surrender formally some right or trust.
- 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:
7
Card games, Games To fail to follow suit; playing a card of a different suit when having no card of the suit led.
- Derived terms
- nonrenouncing, renounceable, renouncement, renouncer, renounce the world, unrenounced, unrenouncing