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renage

renage is the archaic form of renege.

Meaning of renege

Verb

renege (third-person singular simple present reneges, present participle reneging, simple past and past participle reneged)

  1. (intransitive) To break a promise or commitment; to go back on one's word.
    • Previously I promised not to proselytize miserism, but now I want to renege a little on that promise. If your family income is anywhere near average, you can scrimp and save and cut back for maybe two to four years […]2010, Dolly Freed, Possum Living, page 149
    Antonyms:
    deliver
  2. (intransitive) To break one's commitment to follow suit when capable.
  3. (archaic, transitive) To deny; to renounce
    • His captaines heart, / Which in the ſcuffles of great fights hath burſt / The Buckles on his breaſt, reneages all temper, / And is become the bellowes and the Fan / To coole a Gypſies Luſt.c. 1606–1607 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Anthonie and Cleopatra”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard...

Forms of renage

third-person singular presentrenages
present participlerenaging
past participlerenaged
pastrenaged

Questions about renage

What is renage the archaic form of?
Renage is the archaic form of renege.

Words near renage in the dictionary

  1. Ren fest
  2. Ren fests
  3. Ren-ai
  4. renable
  5. renably
  6. renage
  7. renaged
  8. renages
  9. renaging
  10. renague
  11. renagued

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Adapted from Wiktionary: renage (page history and authors); renege (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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