All 5 Uses
renounce
in
The Aeneid
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- Now take this earnest of success, for more: Your scatter'd fleet is join'd upon the shore; The winds are chang'd, your friends from danger free; Or I renounce my skill in augury.†
Book 1renounce = formally reject, give up, or turn away from
- The trembling rowers from their banks arise, And, anxious for themselves, renounce the prize.†
Book 5 *
- Eryx, accept a nobler sacrifice; Take the last gift my wither'd arms can yield: Thy gauntlets I resign, and here renounce the field.†
Book 5
- Forsaking honor, and renouncing fame, Your gods, your country, and your king you shame!†
Book 9renouncing = formally rejecting, giving up, or turning away from
- Aeneas then unsheath'd his shining sword, And thus with pious pray'rs the gods ador'd: "All-seeing sun, and thou, Ausonian soil, For which I have sustain'd so long a toil, Thou, King of Heav'n, and thou, the Queen of Air, Propitious now, and reconcil'd by pray'r; Thou, God of War, whose unresisted sway The labors and events of arms obey; Ye living fountains, and ye running floods, All pow'rs of ocean, all ethereal gods, Hear, and bear record: if I fall in field, Or, recreant in the fight, to Turnus yield, My Trojans shall encrease Evander's town; Ascanius shall renounce th' Ausonian crown: All claims, all questions of debate, shall cease; Nor he, nor they, with force infringe the peace.†
Book 12renounce = formally reject, give up, or turn away from
Definitions:
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(1)
(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) - (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)