Crossword clues for renounced
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Renounce \Re*nounce"\ (r[-e]*nouns"), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Renounced (-nounst"); p. pr. & vb. n. Renouncing (-noun"s?ng).] [F. renoncer, L. renuntiare to bring back word, announce, revoke, retract, renounce; pref. re- re- + nuntiare to announce, fr. nuncius, a messenger. See Nuncio, and cf. Renunciation.]
To declare against; to reject or decline formally; to refuse to own or acknowledge as belonging to one; to disclaim; as, to renounce a title to land or to a throne.
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To cast off or reject deliberately; to disown; to dismiss; to forswear.
This world I do renounce, and in your sights Shake patiently my great affliction off.
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(Card Playing) To disclaim having a card of (the suit led) by playing a card of another suit.
To renounce probate (Law), to decline to act as the executor of a will.
--Mozley & W.Syn: To cast off; disavow; disown; disclaim; deny; abjure; recant; abandon; forsake; quit; forego; resign; relinquish; give up; abdicate.
Usage: Renounce, Abjure, Recant. -- To renounce is to make an affirmative declaration of abandonment. To abjure is to renounce with, or as with, the solemnity of an oath. To recant is to renounce or abjure some proposition previously affirmed and maintained.
From Thebes my birth I own; . . . since no disgrace Can force me to renounce the honor of my race.
--Dryden.Either to die the death, or to abjure Forever the society of man.
--Shak.Ease would recant Vows made in pain, as violent and void.
--Milton.
Wiktionary
vb. (en-past of: renounce)
Usage examples of "renounced".
Paul may be found in the conversion of Simeon: like the apostle, he embraced the doctrine which he had been sent to persecute, renounced his honors and fortunes, and required among the Paulicians the fame of a missionary and a martyr.
Cyprian had renounced those temporal honors, which it is probable he would never have obtained.
Cyprian are as particular, and simply say, that he had appointed a day by which the Christians must have renounced their faith.
Suidas adds, that Constantine wished to prove, by this execution, that he had absolutely renounced the superstition of the Gentiles.
In many churches, the Arians and Homoousians, who had renounced each other's communion, continued for some time to join in prayer.
The Pagan supposes, that because they had renounced the gods, they were possessed and tormented by evil daemons.
As they were conscious how ill they had deserved the respect, or confidence, of the Barbarians, they diligently collected, from every side, a military force, that might urge the tardy and reluctant march of a people, who had not yet renounced the title, or the duties, of Roman subjects.
It was naturally supposed, that the pious and humble monks, who had renounced the world to accomplish the work of their salvation, were the best qualified for the spiritual government of the Christians.
Genseric himself, in his early youth, had renounced the orthodox communion.
The worship of images was triumphantly restored: the patriarch renounced his dissimulation, or dissembled his sentiments and the righteous claims of the usurper was acknowledged, both in the new, and in ancient, Rome.
After a long indulgence of rapine and slaughter, a fair and ample territory was accepted, occupied, and named, by the Normans of France: they renounced their gods for the God of the Christians.
Somehow, with the last fleeting touch of magic before she renounced it forever, she knew that from this one night, when they had been only lovers and not yet king and queen, she would bear Uther’s son.
Perhaps she has gone into a convent somewhere and become a Christian and renounced the Sight.
She had renounced her state as priestess, leaving behind her even the little sickle knife of her initiation.
Have you renounced the fiends of Avalon and left that evil place, and accepted our Lord and Saviour Christ, lady?