to give up or put aside voluntarily: to renounce worldly pleasures.
2.
to give up by formal declaration: to renounce a claim.
3.
to repudiate; disown: to renounce one's son.
verb (used without object)
4.
Cards.
a.
to play a card of a different suit from that led.
b.
to abandon or give up a suit led.
c.
to fail to follow the suit led.
noun
5.
Cards.an act or instance of renouncing.
Origin: 1325–75;Middle Englishrenouncen < Middle Frenchrenoncer < Latinrenūntiāre to bring back word, disclaim, equivalent to re-re- + nūntiāre to announce, derivative of nūntius messenger, news
c.1380, from O.Fr. renoncer, from L. renuntiare "proclaim, protest against, renounce," from re- "against" + nuntiare "to report, announce," from nuntius "messenger" (see nuncio).