| 单词 | abjure |
| 释义 | ab·jure 1. < solemnly abjures his allegiance to his former country > : give up : reject < abjure his old beliefs > 2. < the criminal was allowed to claim immunity by abjuring the realm > 3. < abjure extravagant claims for a product > Synonyms: < the friar concluded with beseeching the Peruvian monarch to receive him kindly, to abjure the errors of his own faith, and embrace that of the Christians now proffered to him — W.H.Prescott > < Galileo was summoned before the Inquisition at Rome, and there he was made to abjure the Copernican theory — S.F.Mason > renounce indicates a giving up or casting off of something previously believed, practiced, or adhered to, with some spoken or tacit indication of the change of position < abandoning wife and children, home and business, and renouncing normal morality and humanity — G.B.Shaw > < he was later to renounce impressionism, and to quarrel with most of the impressionists — Herbert Read > < they made a monk of me; I did renounce the world, its pride and greed — Robert Browning > forswear may indicate resolute rejection; it may apply to dishonorable or ill-advised rejection of that to which one should adhere < Mr. Dulles grants by implication that the Peking regime is the government of China. He insists that it forswear the use of force in advancing its ambitions — New Republic > < support him in an apostasy, in a forswearing of honor and principle, for personal power — J.C.Fitzpatrick > recant is likely to indicate rejection of a previously adhered-to belief or position accompanied by admission of error and acceptance of a sanctioned belief < Shostakovich, as our newspapers have told us, has suffered from official criticism and been forced to recant and rewrite — W.C.Huntington > < if Christians recanted they were to be spared, but if they persisted in their faith they were to be executed — K.S.Latourette > retract indicates a withdrawing or calling back, often of a statement or implication to someone's discredit < give the present writer an opportunity of retracting criticism from his own pen which he now feels to have been unjust — Richard Garnett > < they … retract what they have said, and say publicly that they were mistaken — Rose Macaulay > |
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