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After much contemplation, she decided to abjure her former way of life and dedicate herself to helping others.abjure = reject or abandon
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The witness was asked to abjure her previous statement and tell the truth.abjure = renounce
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The Naturalization Oath of Allegiance to the United States begins, "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; that I will support and defend the Constitution and laws of the United States of America ..."abjure = solemnly renounce
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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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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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"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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By earth and stone, I abjure you!† (source)abjure = formally reject
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Tolstoy renounced wealth, fame and privilege; he abjured violence in all its forms and was ready to suffer for doing so; but it is not easy to believe that he abjured the principle of coercion, or at least the DESIRE to coerce others. (source)abjured = rejected
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But that was an abjuration which, as they well knew, they were powerless to extort.† (source)abjuration = the act of formally rejectingstandard 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)abjures = formally rejects
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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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I am waiting from hour to hour for him to come and abjure his evidence.† (source)abjure = formally reject
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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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The Abjuration.† (source)Abjuration = the act of formally rejecting
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Respecting him, my soul abjures the offence; And as the crime, I dread the consequence.† (source)abjures = formally rejects
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On receiving this the victim might either openly abjure his former ways, or might fly from the country.† (source)abjure = formally reject
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