abrenounce

Verb

abrenounce (third-person singular simple present abrenounces, present participle abrenouncing, simple past and past participle abrenounced)

1. (obsolete, transitive) To renounce; to contradict.
   • Many of theſe might ſeem ingrate and unkind children, that vvill no better acknovvledge and recogniſe their parents in vvords and outvvard pretence, but abrenounce and caſt them off, as though they hated them as dogs and ſerpents.1536 June 15 (Gregorian calendar), Hugh Latimer, “Sermon II. Master Latimer’s Discourse on the Same Day in the Afternoon [Preached to the Convocation of the Clergy, before the Parliament Began, the...