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reney

reney is the alternative form of renay.

Meaning of renay

Verb

renay (third-person singular simple present renays, present participle renaying, simple past and past participle renayed)

  1. (obsolete, transitive) To renounce (one’s faith or god), to apostasize from.
    • […] Mammolukes and Geniſaries about yͤ Turk and Sowdã [Sowdan, i.e., Sudan], haue vſed to chriſten their children of purpoſe, that by the renayĩg [renaying] of their fayth, after, they might be made Mammolukes or Geniſaries, as theyr fathers were, and may be had the more in eſtimacion & fauour...1528, Thomas More, “A Dialogue Concernynge Heresyes & Matters of Religion […]. Chapter 15. That Princes be Boundẽ [Bounden] to Punish Heretykes, and that Fayre Handelyng Helpeth Litle with Many of...
  2. (obsolete, transitive) To take back, to recant (something one says or believes).
  3. (obsolete, transitive) To reject, to deny the truth of (a statement).

Forms of reney

third-person singular presentreneys
present participlereneying
past participlereneyed
pastreneyed

Questions about reney

What is reney the alternative form of?
Reney is the alternative form of renay.

Words near reney in the dictionary

  1. renewings
  2. renewment
  3. renewments
  4. renews
  5. Renews-Cappahayden
  6. reney
  7. reneyed
  8. reneying
  9. reneys
  10. Renfield syndrome
  11. Renfield's syndrome

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Adapted from Wiktionary: reney (page history and authors); renay (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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