abrenouncev.
/ˌabrᵻˈnaʊns/, U.S. /ˌæbrəˈnaʊns/ Now rare and literary.
transitive. To renounce completely, to repudiate.
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the mind > language > statement > repudiation or refusal to acknowledge > repudiate or refuse to acknowledge [verb (transitive)]
dissolve1382
denyc1384
renaya1450
forswearc1475
repudy1477
disallowa1513
abrenounce1537
repudiate1560
have1579
disclaim1596
renounce1617
abrenunciate1618
unowna1657
disown1666
refute1886
slam1973
the mind > mental capacity > memory > effacement, obliteration > cancellation, revocation > annul, cancel, revoke [verb (transitive)]
fordoOE
allayOE
withdrawc1290
withclepe13..
again-callc1390
to call againc1390
repealc1390
revokec1400
unmakec1400
rive1415
annulc1425
abroge1427
uncommandc1430
discharge?a1439
retreatc1443
retract1501
cancela1513
abrogate?1520
dissolve1526
extinct1531
rescind1531
abrenounce1537
infringe1543
recall1565
unwrite1577
extinguish1590
exauctorate1593
relinquish1594
unact1594
to strike off1597
undecide1601
unpass1606
to take off1609
to draw back1610
reclaim1615
to put back1616
abrenunciate1618
unrip1622
supersedeate1641
to set off1642
unassure1643
unorder1648
to ask away1649
disdetermine1651
unbespeak1661
undecree1667
reassumea1675
off-break1702
circumduct1726
raise1837
resiliate1838
denounce1841
disorder1852
pull1937
the mind > will > decision > irresolution or vacillation > reversal of or forsaking one's will or purpose > reverse or abandon one's purpose or intention [verb (transitive)] > desert/renounce a cause, principle, or person
withsayc960
forsakec1175
renayc1300
waive1303
to waive from1303
allayc1330
to fall from ——c1350
relinquish1454
forlesec1460
to give over1477
missake1481
return1483
guerpe1484
abrenounce1537
to turn the back uponc1540
renege1548
forspeak1565
recant1567
reject1574
abnegate1616
abrenunciate1618
derelinque1623
ejurate1623
to give one the backa1624
derelinquisha1631
ejure1642
delinquish1645
desert1654
deviate1757
to give up1970
the mind > language > statement > denial or contradiction > deny or contradict [verb (transitive)]
withquethec888
withsake971
falsea1225
withsay?c1225
denyc1300
again-saya1382
naitc1390
nitec1390
naya1400
nicka1400
warna1400
denytec1420
traversea1450
repugnc1456
unsayc1460
renay1512
disavow?1532
disaffirm1548
contradict1582
fault1585
belie1587
infringe1590
dementie1594
abnegate1616
negate1623
nege1624
abrenounce1656
nay-saya1774
negative1784
dement1884
1537 tr. H. Latimer Serm. to Clergie sig. Cv Many of these..woll no better aknowledge, and recognyse theyr parentes..but abrenounce and cast them of.
1570 J. Foxe Actes & Monumentes (rev. ed.) I. 228/1 Commaundyng all ye clergy..either to abrenounce their wyues, or their liuinges.
1591 M. Sutcliffe Treat. Eccl. Discipline iii. §iv. 70 Let the disciplinarians..abrenounce their wrested interpretations.
1638 E. Reynolds Serm. Peace Church 40 A Godly purpose abrenouncing all sinne in Conscience, profession, and endeavour of Conversation for the time to come.
1656 J. Trapp Comm. New Test. (ed. 2) (Matt.) 239 Let him deny himself..let him abrenounce himself flatly.
1844 J. O. Halliwell Dict. Archaic & Provinc. Words (1846) I Abrenounce, to renounce utterly.]
1919 ‘W. C. Leith’ Domus Doloris iii. 30 To renounce, to abrenounce, the form and character of the individual nature is to disserve the general good.
Derivatives
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?1555 J. Bradford Exhort. carienge Chrystes Crosse ii. 16 Where is our abrenouncing and forsakyng of the world?
1606 T. Whetenhall Disc. Abuses 102 The Bishops..began to demand of infants of the abrenouncing of Satan, and of the faith in the holy Trinitie.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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