renounce
to give up or put aside voluntarily: to renounce worldly pleasures.
to give up by formal declaration: to renounce a claim.
to repudiate; disown: to renounce one's son.
Cards.
to play a card of a different suit from that led.
to abandon or give up a suit led.
to fail to follow the suit led.
Cards. an act or instance of renouncing.
Origin of renounce
1synonym study For renounce
Other words for renounce
Opposites for renounce
Other words from renounce
- re·nounce·a·ble, re·nun·ci·a·ble [ruh-nuhn-see-uh-buhl, -shee-], /rəˈnʌn si ə bəl, -ʃi-/, adjective
- re·nounce·ment, noun
- re·nounc·er, noun
- non·re·nounc·ing, adjective
- self-re·nounced, adjective
- self-re·nounce·ment, noun
- self-re·nounc·ing, adjective
- un·re·nounce·a·ble, adjective
- un·re·nounced, adjective
- un·re·nounc·ing, adjective
- un·re·nun·ci·a·ble, adjective
Words that may be confused with renounce
- denounce, renounce
Words Nearby renounce
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How to use renounce in a sentence
If people could only renounce their hateful ideas, they could learn to love one another.
Context: Rumored to be the last words of the French enlightenment writer, when a priest asked him to renounce Satan.
Unlike her brother, however, Laura does not renounce her love, but determines to hide it from view.
Lillian Smith’s Bombshell Novel About Interracial Love | Nathaniel Rich | May 25, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTKuzenkov is the only humane Communist Party member in the book, which is another way of saying he must renounce the Party.
This 1979 Novel Predicted Putin’s Invasion Of Crimea | Michael Weiss | May 18, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTLouis looked at me with a startled air, but recovering himself said kindly, “Of course I renounce the—what is it I must renounce?”
Read ‘The King in Yellow,’ the ‘True Detective’ Reference That’s the Key to the Show | Robert W. Chambers | February 20, 2014 | THE DAILY BEAST
renounce the good law of the worshippers of Mazda, and thou shalt gain such a boon as the Murderer gained, the ruler of nations.
Solomon and Solomonic Literature | Moncure Daniel ConwayThe Dauphin would be perfectly willing to renounce them for himself and for all his descendants.
The History of England from the Accession of James II. | Thomas Babington MacaulayFrom the father of the latter she received thirty thousand francs to renounce her son.
Repertory Of The Comedie Humaine, Complete, A -- Z | Anatole Cerfberr and Jules Franois ChristopheMark well that I do not renounce the pleasure of changing my opinion or of contradicting myself.
Charles Baudelaire, His Life | Thophile Gautier"A woman will do anything for a man but renounce him," says Lloyd; and she cannot understand this fierce instinct of his.
Love's Pilgrimage | Upton Sinclair
British Dictionary definitions for renounce
/ (rɪˈnaʊns) /
(tr) to give up (a claim or right), esp by formal announcement: to renounce a title
(tr) to repudiate: to renounce Christianity
(tr) to give up (some habit, pursuit, etc) voluntarily: to renounce smoking
(intr) cards to fail to follow suit because one has no cards of the suit led
rare a failure to follow suit in a card game
Origin of renounce
1Derived forms of renounce
- renouncement, noun
- renouncer, noun
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