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abjureab‧jure /əbˈdʒʊə, æb- $ -ˈdʒʊr/ verb [transitive] abjureOrigin: 1400-1500 Latin abjurare, from ab- ‘away’ + jurare ‘to swear’ VERB TABLEabjure |
Present | I, you, we, they | abjure | | he, she, it | abjures | Past | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | abjured | Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have abjured | | he, she, it | has abjured | Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had abjured | Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will abjure | Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have abjured |
- But he had a mild, good-humoured, articulate side, verging on the academic, abjuring the sensational.
- I would abjure my art then and there, leave off cursing, leave off binding fast and loose with spells.
- Myln was a former priest, who had abjured in the early 1540s.
- She can not abjure, give up, control the force by which she is possessed.
- The top echelons of the civil service have generally abjured responsibility for policy decisions.
formal to state publicly that you will give up a particular belief or way of behaving SYN renounce |