Sample Sentences for
abjure
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    He began dating her on her annual two-week visits home, and although she still moved like a thirteen-year-old boy and abjured most feminine adornment, he found something so intensely feminine about her that he fell in love.  (source)
    abjured = rejected
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    Mr. Linton had not only abjured his peevishness (though his spirits seemed still subdued by Catherine's exuberance of vivacity), but he ventured no objection to her taking Isabella with her to Wuthering Heights in the afternoon;  (source)
    abjured = renounced or rejected
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    "I hereby declare, on oath, that I absolutely and entirely renounce and abjure all allegiance and fidelity to any foreign prince, potentate, state, or sovereignty, of whom or which I have heretofore been a subject or citizen," Oscar said.  (source)
    abjure = formally reject
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    Lord Blackwood shall be required to confess his treason and abjure his allegiance to the Starks and Tullys.  (source)
    abjure = formally reject
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    And Ellen was not visible (she seemed to have retired to the darkened room which she was not to quit until she died two years later) and nobody could have told from either Sutpen's or Judith's faces or actions or behavior, and so the tale came through the negroes: of how on the night before Christmas there had been a quarrel between, not Bon and Henry or Bon and Sutpen, but between the son and the father and that Henry had formally abjured his father and renounced his birthright and the roof under which he had been born and that he and Bon had ridden away in the night and that the mother was prostratethough, the town believed, not at the upset of the marriage but at the shock of reality ente†  (source)
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    But that was an abjuration which, as they well knew, they were powerless to extort.†  (source)
    standard suffix: The suffix "-tion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in action, education, and observation.
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    No one abjures the exercise of his reason and his free will; but every one exerts that reason and that will for the benefit of a common undertaking.†  (source)
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    Tolstoy was capable of abjuring physical violence and of seeing what this implies, but he was not capable of tolerance or humility, and even if one knew nothing of his other writings, one could deduce his tendency towards spiritual bullying from this single pamphlet.  (source)
    abjuring = rejecting
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    By earth and stone, I abjure you!†  (source)
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    The protesting minority were forgotten in the throng which abjured and came; and the audience was almost as brilliant as the show.†  (source)
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    Though I made no further observation of her at the moment, I may mention here what I did not discover until afterwards, namely, that she was one of a series of protegees whom my aunt had taken into her service expressly to educate in a renouncement of mankind, and who had generally completed their abjuration by marrying the baker.†  (source)
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    I am waiting from hour to hour for him to come and abjure his evidence.†  (source)
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    Oh, I have been base, cowardly, I tell you; I have abjured my affections, and like all renegades I am of evil omen to those who surround me!†  (source)
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