abjure

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STOP DOING something formal to state publicly that you will give up a particular belief or way of behaving 公开宣布放弃〔某种信念或做法〕 SYN renounce

Examples from the Corpus

abjure• She can not abjure, give up, control the force by which she is possessed.• Myln was a former priest, who had abjured in the early 1540s.• I would abjure my art then and there, leave off cursing, leave off binding fast and loose with spells.• The top echelons of the civil service have generally abjured responsibility for policy decisions.• But he had a mild, good-humoured, articulate side, verging on the academic, abjuring the sensational.

Origin abjure

(1400-1500) Latin abjurare, from ab- “away” + jurare “to swear”

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