renouncing

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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