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Definition

to formally reject, give up, or turn away from

(as in to give up the power of a monarch, to change belief, behavior, support, or association)

Israel asks that they renounce their stated intention of wiping it off the map.

renounce = formally reject, give up, or turn away from

She renounced her religion and joined the Communist party.
There are only two kinds of freedom in the world; the freedom of the rich and powerful, and the freedom of the artist and the monk who renounces possessions.
Anais Nin
To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead.
Thomas Paine
She renounced her husband
Because they refused to accept female ministers, she renounced her membership in the church and joined another denomination.
To renounce liberty is to renounce being a man, to surrender the rights of humanity and even its duties. For he who renounces everything no indemnity is possible. Such a renunciation is incompatible with man's nature; to remove all liberty from his will is to remove all morality from his acts.
Jean Jacques Rousseau

(editor's note: 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.)

Renounce the material world and you surrender it to evil.
Ayn Rand -- Atlas Shrugged

renounce = formally reject, give up, or turn away from

He would have preferred to renounce everything, throw it all away, die, rather than fail Fermina Daza.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez -- Love in the Time of Cholera

renounce = to formally reject, give up, and turn away from

She has renounced the claim on your brother's blood.
C.S. Lewis -- The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe

renounced = formally given up

renounce it as plain villainy
C.S. Lewis -- The Silver Chair

renounce = reject

Put your hand on this Bible, and say, 'I renounce all private speech and intercourse with Philip Wakem from this time forth.'
George Eliot -- The Mill on the Floss

renounce = to formally give up

I renounce the gods!
Rick Riordan -- The Battle of the Labyrinth

renounce = to formally reject or turn away from

One was the renunciation of his old life, of his utterly useless education.
Tolstoy, Leo -- Anna Karenina

The disappointment in her face spurred him to renunciation of his particular dream.
London, Jack -- The Valley of the Moon

In this list there were three conditions which displeased Mazarin and he offered the prince ten thousand crowns to renounce them.
Dumas, Alexandre -- Twenty Years After
I here renounce him and return to Henry.
Shakespeare, William -- King Henry VI, Part 3
He did not renounce his opinions, but felt himself in some way to blame and wished to justify himself.
Tolstoy, Leo -- War and Peace
In a sense this gradual renunciation of beauty was the second step after his disillusion had been made complete.
F. Scott Fitzgerald -- This Side of Paradise

—there stands a rustic dwelling which you can make me prouder of, than all the hopes I have renounced, measured a thousandfold.
Charles Dickens -- Oliver Twist

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