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verb (used with object), -jured, -jur·ing.
1.
to renounce, repudiate, or retract, especially with formal solemnity; recant: to abjure one's errors.
2.
to renounce or give up under oath; forswear: to abjure allegiance.
3.
to avoid or shun.
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Abjure
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Example Sentences
- To reach that listener she has to give up one of the jazz musician's primary rights, which is to abjure her past.
- But let us hope those yet to be written will abjure facile ideology.
- Both abjure violence but are ready to court confrontation by bringing thousands of ethnic Albanians into the streets.
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Word Origin & History
abjure
early 15c., from M.Fr. abjurer, from L. abjurare "deny on oath," from ab- "away" + jurare "to swear," related to jus (gen. juris) "law" (see jurist).
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