abjure
abjurar
definition
verb
his refusal to abjure the Catholic faith
solemnly renounce (a belief, cause, or claim).
translation of 'abjure'
verb
abjurar,
renunciar,
repudiar
example
He eagerly concurs in the prince's vow to 'abjure' the throne and marriage.
his refusal to 'abjure' the Catholic faith
Just as many modern restaurateurs think you should do without a cruet, some modish winemakers 'abjure' oak, preferring to let the grapes speak for themselves.
MPs were urged to 'abjure' their Jacobite allegiance
Thus, Muldrow cannot help but 'abjure' spiritual claims to universal enlightenment.
After a long and wearisome trial he was condemned on June 22, 1633, solemnly to 'abjure' his scientific creed on bended knees.
We were asked first to ‘absolutely and entirely renounce and 'abjure' all allegiances and fidelity to any foreign prince, potentate, state, or sovereignty.’
He alone of all men must for an uncertain time 'abjure' this field of endeavour, however great his interest.
I want to look closely at the first lines of the poem, in which Smith seems to 'abjure' any claim of authority.
He 'abjured' an inclination to ‘tinker’ with the rate to take account of transient shifts in market conditions.
She went on a strict diet of milk products, even 'abjuring' her beloved Mars chocolate bars, and dropped to her present weight of 90 pounds.
It is at this point when he 'abjures' legal justice that he articulates the notion of a just revenge.
The response among younger women to this dilemma, at least in the feverish imagination of the media, has been an 'abjuration' of femininity.
He who votes against the rights of another whatever his religion, colour or sex, thereby 'abjures' his own.
He was condemned in 1595 ‘on grave suspicion of heresy’ and forced to make a formal public 'abjuration' .
If only she could abjure art the way she 'abjured' religion and write less self-consciously, the true artist would re-emerge from what is beginning to seem like indefinite hibernation.
Disappointed in this, they turned in 1650 to Charles II, who signed the Covenant, but then 'abjured' it at his RESTORATION, condemning it as an unlawful oath.
Who speaks these terrible 'abjurations' , Kafka the man or Kafka the artist?
She becomes a devotee of women's rights, 'abjures' marriage, and founds a university.
The Inquisition had accepted Cardano's private 'abjuration' , extracting a promise from him never to teach or publish in the Papal States again.
The nineteenth-century elites kept to their strict Protestant ways, 'abjuring' the theater but supporting music.
An analysis of the institutional politics of the tax depreciation cases also lends support to an explanation why the judiciary 'abjured' precise definition of ‘profits’ for income tax or dividend distribution purposes.
They have ceased to practise, and perhaps even to believe in their faith without 'abjuring' it, like many if not most of us.
In the next few years Campanella found himself in trouble with the Venetian and Roman Inquisitions, 'abjuring' his heresies in Rome in May 1594.
The dramatic crisis stems from Galileo's enforced 'abjuration' in 1633 of his belief in a heliocentric universe.
The clear implication is that the Party 'abjured' all forms of violence and acts of terror.
To recant is to withdraw or disavow a declared belief, as in renouncing a philosophy or 'abjuring' fealty to a religion.
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