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/əbˈd͡ʒʊə(ɹ)/ · verb
To solemnly reject (someone or something); to abandon (someone or something) forever; to disavow, to disclaim, to repudiate..
to abjure errors
Her[mia]. […] But I beſeech your Grace, that I may knovve / The vvorſt that may befall mee in this caſe, / If I refuſe to vved Demetrius. / The[seus]. Either to dy the death, or to abiure, / For euer, the ſociety of men.
She diſappeerd, and left me dark, I vvak'd / To find her, or for ever to deplore / Her loſs, and other pleaſures all abjure: […]
[B]oth Charles [I] himself and his creature [William] Laud, while they abjured the innocent badges of Popery, retained all its worst vices, […]
Only as thou abjurest self, / Lovest thy Brother more than pelf, / And drivest out the impish elf, // Sectarian pride, from all thy heart, / Canst thou have place, or lot, or part / Within the Heaven-created mart […]
[S]he is an ardent golfer. Except during the season in town, she spends her year in golfing, either at St. Magnus or Pau, for, like all good Americans, she has long since abjured her native soil.
to abjure allegiance to a prince
[T]he man ye write of, was of many thinges borne wrõge [wrong] in hande, & therin ſo ſore handeled that he was forced to for ſwere and abiure certaine hereſyes, & openly to penance therfore, where he neuer held any ſuch.
Use abjure when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Abjure means To solemnly reject (someone or something); to abandon (someone or something) forever; to disavow, to disclaim, to repudiate..
Common synonyms include renounce, abjure, deny, disavow.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
to abjure errors
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