abjure
/əbˈdʒʊə
/ /əbˈdʒɔː/verb [with object] formal
Solemnly renounce (a belief, cause, or claim): MPs were urged to abjure their Jacobite allegiance...
- I want to look closely at the first lines of the poem, in which Smith seems to abjure any claim of authority.
- Thus, Muldrow cannot help but abjure spiritual claims to universal enlightenment.
- To recant is to withdraw or disavow a declared belief, as in renouncing a philosophy or abjuring fealty to a religion.
Synonyms
renounce, relinquish, reject, dispense with, forgo, forswear, disavow, abandon, deny, gainsay, disclaim, repudiate, give up, spurn, abnegate, wash one's hands of, drop, do away with;
eschew, abstain from, refrain from
informal kick, jack in, pack in
Law disaffirm
archaic forsake
Phrases
abjure the realm
Derivatives
abjuration
/ noun ...- The dramatic crisis stems from Galileo's enforced abjuration in 1633 of his belief in a heliocentric universe.
- The Inquisition had accepted Cardano's private abjuration, extracting a promise from him never to teach or publish in the Papal States again.
- Who speaks these terrible abjurations, Kafka the man or Kafka the artist?
Origin
Late Middle English: from Latin abjurare, from ab- 'away' + jurare 'swear'.