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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 = 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)
(as in to give up the power of a monarch, to change belief , behavior, support, or association)
- 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
- Renounce the material world and you surrender it to evil.Ayn Rand -- Atlas Shrugged
- 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
- She has renounced the claim on your brother's blood.C.S. Lewis -- The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
- renounce it as plain villainyC.S. Lewis -- The Silver Chair
- 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
- I renounce the gods!Rick Riordan -- The Battle of the Labyrinth
- 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
renounce = 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)
(as in to give up the power of a monarch, to change belief , behavior, support, or association)
renounce = to formally reject, give up, and turn away from
renounced = formally given up
renounce = reject
renounce = to formally give up
renounce = to formally reject or turn away from