Abjure

Quick meaning: Abjure is a verb meaning To solemnly reject (someone or something); to abandon (someone or something) forever; to disavow, to disclaim, to repudiate.

Meaning

To solemnly reject (someone or something); to abandon (someone or something) forever; to disavow, to disclaim, to repudiate.

More Meanings

1. To renounce (something) upon oath; to forswear; specifically, to recant or retract (a heresy or some other opinion); to withdraw.
2. To cause (someone) to recant or retract (a heresy or some other opinion).
3. Especially in abjure the realm: to swear an oath to leave (a place) forever.
4. To cause or compel (someone) to leave a place forever; to banish.
5. To solemnly reject; to abandon forever.
6. To recant or retract a heresy on oath.
7. To swear an oath to leave a place forever.

Example Sentences

to abjure errors

to abjure allegiance to a prince

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, […]

Word Forms

• abjures
• abjuring
• abjured
• abjurest
• abjuredst
• abjureth

Synonyms for abjure

Depending on context, synonyms include renounce, deny, disavow, disclaim, disown, forsay.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include forswear, recant, retract, renounce, abandon, foreswear.

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