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Another word for renounce

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Verb

  1. To give up a possession, claim, or right

    See also:

    keep

  2. To refuse to recognize or acknowledge

    Idioms:
    See also:

    accept

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Another word for renounce

Verb

  1. To abandon

    See also:

    abandon

  2. To repudiate

    See also:

    recant

    discard

    deny

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Sentence Examples

  • But he was soon forced to renounce this hope.

  • Besides, Sonya is so charming that only a fool would renounce such happiness.

  • In 1669 he resigned his mathematical chair to his pupil, Isaac Newton, having now determined to renounce the study of mathematics for that of divinity.

  • Her irreligion was shared by multitudes of contemporaries who had never been called upon to renounce one form of Christianity and profess belief in another in order to gain a crown.

  • Even if Pierre were not a Frenchman, having once received that loftiest of human appellations he could not renounce it, said the officer's look and tone.

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