Renounce

/ɹɪˈnaʊns/ · noun

Meaning

(card games) An act of renouncing..

Definitions by Sense

1. (card games) An act of renouncing.
2. (transitive) To give up, resign, surrender.
3. (transitive) To cast off, repudiate.
4. (transitive) To decline further association with someone or something, disown.
5. (transitive) To abandon, forsake, discontinue (an action, habit, intention, etc), sometimes by open declaration.
6. (intransitive) To make a renunciation of something.
7. (intransitive) To surrender formally some right or trust.
8. (intransitive, card games) To fail to follow suit; playing a card of a different suit when having no card of the suit led.

Example Sentences

to renounce a title to land or to a throne

It is terrible to think of the power of the world even in a redeemed soul. Here was a maid who had drunk of the well of grace and tasted of God's mercies, and yet there were moments when she was ready to renounce her hope.

This world I do renounce, and in your sights Shake patiently my great affliction off.

[…] some families renounced the use of a certain praenomen which had been disgraced by one of their name […]

His son Sidhartha had renounced material life and gone forth in search of enlightment. He received enlightment under a Bodhi tree at Gaya and became Buddha. Ashoka visited Gaya along with Upagupta and had darshan of Sambodhi.

Time is running out, so I renounce a spin on a Class 387 for a fast run to Paddington on another Class 800 - a shame as the weather was perfect for pictures. Even so, it's enjoyable - boy, can those trains shift under the wires.

He of my sons who fails to make it good, / By one rebellious act renounces to my blood.

Dryden died without a will, and his widow having renounced, his son Charles administered on June 10.

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• renounces
• renouncing
• renounced

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