Etymology: < renounce v., originally after French renonce failure to follow suit (second half of the 17th cent.; the general sense ‘renunciation‘ is not paralleled in French). With sense 1 compare earlier renege n., revoke n. With sense 2 compare earlier renouncement n., renouncing n., renounsal n., renunciation n.

Etymology: < Anglo-Norman renonsier, renouncer, renouncier, renuncier, Anglo-Norman and Middle French renoncer, renoncier, renuncer (French renoncer ) to announce, declare, narrate (c1155 in Old French), to make renunciation of (something), to give (something) up (c1245), to withdraw formally from (a right or claim) (1255 in renoncer à , used intransitively), to cease to acknowledge, or maintain obedience to (a source of authority, especially God) (c1320), to abandon, abjure (a belief, faith, opinion) (1362 or earlier), to repudiate (a law, authority) (second half of the 15th cent. or earlier), to give up one's life, self, or humanity, to entrust one's spirit entirely to God's care (1541 in Calvin, in renoncer à nostre nature ‘to renounce our nature’ and renoncer à soy-mesme ‘to renounce oneself’, as well as used reflexively) and its etymon classical Latin renuntiāre (in post-classical Latin also renunciare) to take or send back a message, report, to announce, to proclaim, to declare, to call off, to withdraw (from), forsake, give up, in post-classical Latin spec. in spiritual context to withdraw (from), forsake, give up (late 2nd cent. in Tertullian) < re- re- prefix + nuntiāre to make known, report (see nunciation n.). Compare announce v., denounce v., pronounce v., etc.Compare Old Occitan renunciar (end of the 12th cent. or earlier), Catalan renunciar (1272), Spanish renunciar (a1250), Portuguese renunciar (1274 as †renuçar ), Italian renunziare (a1292 as †rinunziare ; also †renuntiare ). With sense 9 compare French renoncer (1680 in this sense).