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† abreˈnounce, v. Obs.
[f. L. ab off, away + renounce, after med.L. abrenunciā-re to repudiate; f. ab away, off + renuntiā-re to unsay, retract; f. re back + nuntiā-re often corrupted to nunciā-re to tell.]
To renounce, repudiate; to contradict.
1537Latimer Serm. before Convoc. 6 Many of these..will no better acknowledge and recognise theyr parentes..but abrenounce and cast them of. 1553–87Foxe A. & M. (1596) 159/1 Commanding all the clergie..either to abrenounce their wiues, or their livings. 1566Knox Hist. Ref. Scotl. Wks. 1846 I. 300 Many began opinly to abrenunce thare ald idolatrie. 1656J. Trapp Exp. Matt. xvi. 24 (1868) 202/1 Let him deny himself..let him abrenounce himself flatly. |