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Examples of abjure
abjure
Jesus himself told his followers to abjure the old ways and, so, overthrew them.
From the economist.com
Are you really still a Christian if you abjure all belief in the supernatural?
From the scienceblogs.com
It was not the initial intent of this Long Parliament to abjure the King's person.
From the en.wikipedia.org
What I find incongruous is that we humans, daily, abjure the wonder of life.
From the smh.com.au
Some 16-18% of women in the UAE, Bahrain and Oman apparently abjure fruit altogether.
From the economist.com
Quentin was manacled, tortured repeatedly, but refused to abjure his faith.
From the en.wikipedia.org
It was a disease the theistic evolutionists were formerly keen to abjure.
From the scienceblogs.com
He has led a full-throated effort to get the Bush Administration to abjure the use of torture.
From the time.com
The refusal to abjure any tax increase, at any time, amounts to heresy in some Republican circles.
From the washingtonpost.com
- Formally reject or disavow a formerly held belief, usually under pressure; "He retracted his earlier statements about his religion"; "She abjured her beliefs"
- Abjuration is the solemn repudiation, abandonment, or renunciation by or upon oath, often the renunciation of citizenship or some other right or privilege. It comes from the Latin abjurare, "to forswear").
- To renounce upon oath; to forswear; to disavow; To renounce or reject with solemnity; to recant; to abandon forever; to reject; repudiate
- (v.) to reject, renounce (To prove his honesty, the president abjured the evil policies of his wicked predecessor.)
- To give up or renounce, often under oath; to abstain from.
- (v) to renounce (give up or put aside voluntarily) solemnly, esp. by formal declaration
- To promise to give up
