renounce
摒弃,摈弃,背弃,抛弃
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Definitions
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re·nounced, re·nounc·ing.
- : to give up or put aside voluntarily: to renounce worldly pleasures.
- : to give up by formal declaration: to renounce a claim.
- : to repudiate; disown: to renounce one's son.
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re·nounced, re·nounc·ing.
- : Cards. to play a card of a different suit from that led.to abandon or give up a suit led.to fail to follow the suit led.
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- : Cards. an act or instance of renouncing.
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Examples
If people could only renounce their hateful ideas, they could learn to love one another.
Context: Rumored to be the last words of the French enlightenment writer, when a priest asked him to renounce Satan.
Unlike her brother, however, Laura does not renounce her love, but determines to hide it from view.
Kuzenkov is the only humane Communist Party member in the book, which is another way of saying he must renounce the Party.
Louis looked at me with a startled air, but recovering himself said kindly, “Of course I renounce the—what is it I must renounce?”
Renounce the good law of the worshippers of Mazda, and thou shalt gain such a boon as the Murderer gained, the ruler of nations.
The Dauphin would be perfectly willing to renounce them for himself and for all his descendants.
From the father of the latter she received thirty thousand francs to renounce her son.
Mark well that I do not renounce the pleasure of changing my opinion or of contradicting myself.
"A woman will do anything for a man but renounce him," says Lloyd; and she cannot understand this fierce instinct of his.