Definitions for renounce
rɪˈnaʊnsre·nounce

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. abdicate, renounceverb

   give up, such as power, as of monarchs and emperors, or duties and obligations

   "The King abdicated when he married a divorcee"

2. vacate, resign, renounce, give upverb

   leave (a job, post, or position) voluntarily

   "She vacated the position when she got pregnant"; "The chairman resigned when he was found to have misappropriated funds"

3. foreswear, renounce, quit, relinquishverb

   turn away from; give up

   "I am foreswearing women forever"

4. disown, renounce, repudiateverb

   cast off

   "She renounced her husband"; "The parents repudiated their son"

WiktionaryRate this definition:4.5 / 2 votes

1. renouncenoun

   An act of renouncing.

2. renounceverb

   To give up, resign, surrender.

3. renounceverb

   To cast off, repudiate.

4. renounceverb

   To decline further association with someone or something, disown.

5. renounceverb

   To abandon, forsake, discontinue (an action, habit, intention, etc), sometimes by open declaration.

6. renounceverb

   To make a renunciation of something.

7. renounceverb

   To surrender formally some right or trust.

8. renounceverb

   (cards) To fail to follow suit; playing a card of a different suit when having no card of the suit led.

9. Etymology: From Latin renuntiare.

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. To RENOUNCEverb

   Etymology: renoncer, Fr. renuncio, Lat.

   1. To disown; to abnegate.

   From Thebes my birth I own; and no disgrace
   Can force me to renounce the honour of my race. Dryden.

   2. To quit upon oath.

   This world I do renounce; and in your sights
   Shake patiently my great affliction off. William Shakespeare, K , . Lear.

2. To Renounceverb

   To declare renunciation. The following passage is a mere Gallicism: renoncer a mon sang.

   On this firm principle I ever stood;
   He of my sons, who fails to make it good,
   By one rebellious act renounces to my blood. Dryden.

ChatGPTRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. renounce

   To renounce is to formally declare one's abandonment or rejection of something, such as a claim, possession, title, right, belief, or allegiance. It can also imply a conscious decision to give up or cease to follow a certain course of action, thought, or lifestyle.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:4.5 / 2 votes

1. Renounceverb

   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

2. Renounceverb

   to cast off or reject deliberately; to disown; to dismiss; to forswear

3. Renounceverb

   to disclaim having a card of (the suit led) by playing a card of another suit

4. Renounceverb

   to make renunciation

5. Renounceverb

   to decline formally, as an executor or a person entitled to letters of administration, to take out probate or letters

6. Renouncenoun

   act of renouncing

Chambers 20th Century DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Renounce

   rē-nowns′, v.t. to disclaim: to disown: to reject publicly and finally: to forsake.—v.i. to fail to follow suit at cards.—n. a failure to follow suit at cards.—ns. Renounce′ment, act of renouncing, disclaiming, or rejecting; Renoun′cer. [O. Fr.,—L. renuntiāre—re-, away, nuntiāre, -ātum, to announce—nuntius, a messenger.]

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1. Renounce

   Denounce vs. Renounce -- In this Grammar.com article you will learn the differences between the words Denounce and Renounce.

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of renounce in Chaldean Numerology is: 2

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of renounce in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5

Examples of renounce in a Sentence

1. Johann Kaspar Lavater:

   Kiss the hand of him who can renounce what he has publicly taught, when convicted of his error and who, with heartfelt joy, embraces the truth, though with the sacrifice of favorite opinions.

2. Erik Pevernagie:

   Some abandon everything for the outward shell, in the interest of “glitter and looks”, let freeze themselves in artificial postures and renounce realness and sense of self, for the sake of fake appearances, which do not belong to their personality. They live through the eyes of others and cannot enjoy an individual life. Their pathetic fate is an impressive lack of authenticity, spontaneity, candidness, which is a unique key to an open-minded existence. ("Like a frozen image")

3. Ravina Shamdasani:

   Burundi has been slipping closer to the edge ... we call on leaders on all sides to take concrete steps to renounce the use of violence and to resolve differences peacefully.

4. Jean Jacques Rousseau:

   To renounce liberty is to renounce being a man, to surrender the rights of humanity and even its duties. For he who renounces everything no indemnity is possible. Such a renunciation is incompatible with man's nature to remove all liberty from his will is to remove all morality from his acts.

5. Simone Weil:

   It is because the will has no power to bring about salvation that the idea of secular morality is an absurdity. What is called morality only depends on the will in what is, so to speak, its most muscular aspect. Religion on the contrary corresponds to desire, and it is desire that saves...To long for God and to renounce all the rest, that alone can save.”

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=renounce
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Renounce
3. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=renounce
4. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com
5. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/renounce
6. ^ Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/37683/37683-h/37683-h.htm#:~:text=renounce