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renounceth

renounceth is the third-person singular simple present indicative of renounce.

Meaning of renounce

Verb

renounce (third-person singular simple present renounces, present participle renouncing, simple past and past participle renounced)

  1. (transitive) To give up, resign, surrender.
    • to renounce a title to land or to a throne
    Synonyms:
    atsake
  2. (transitive) To cast off, repudiate.
    • This world I do renounce, and in your sights
      Shake patiently my great affliction off.c. 1603–1606, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of King Lear”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount...
  3. (transitive) To decline further association with someone or something, disown.
    Synonyms:
    disown, repudiate, abjure, deny, disavow, disclaim, forsay, forswear, wash one's hands of
  4. (transitive) To abandon, forsake, discontinue (an action, habit, intention, etc), sometimes by open declaration.
    • […] some families renounced the use of a certain praenomen which had been disgraced by one of their name […]1945, E[lizabeth] G[idley] Withycombe, “Introduction”, in The Oxford Dictionary of English Christian Names, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page xv
  5. (intransitive) To make a renunciation of something.
    • He of my sons who fails to make it good, / By one rebellious act renounces to my blood.1687, [John Dryden], “(please specify the page number)”, in The Hind and the Panther. A Poem, in Three Parts, 2nd edition, London: […] Jacob Tonson […], →OCLC
  6. (intransitive) To surrender formally some right or trust.
    • Dryden died without a will, and his widow having renounced, his son Charles administered on June 10.1870, William Dougal Christie, Memoir of John Dryden

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Origin of renounceth

renounce + -eth

Questions about renounceth

What is renounceth the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Renounceth is the third-person singular simple present indicative of renounce.

Words near renounceth in the dictionary

  1. renouncer
  2. renouncers
  3. renounces
  4. renounces the world
  5. renouncest
  6. renounceth
  7. renouncing
  8. renouncing the world
  9. renourinary
  10. renourish
  11. renourished

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