Definition of Renounce

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Renounce

To declare against; to reject or decline formally; to refuse to own or acknowledge as belonging to one; to disclaim; as, to renounce a title to land or to a throne.

To cast off or reject deliberately; to disown; to dismiss; to forswear.

To disclaim having a card of (the suit led) by playing a card of another suit.

To make renunciation.

To decline formally, as an executor or a person entitled to letters of administration, to take out probate or letters.

Act of renouncing.

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Renounce Quotations

Experience is a revelation in the light of which we renounce our errors of youth for those of age.
Ambrose Bierce

The best people renounce all for one goal, the eternal fame of mortals; but most people stuff themselves like cattle.
Heraclitus

I am not a Catholic; but I consider the Christian idea, which has its roots in Greek thought and in the course of the centuries has nourished all of our European civilization, as something that one cannot renounce without becoming degraded.
Simone Weil

He who desires to worship God must harbor no childish illusions about the matter but bravely renounce his liberty and humanity.
Mikhail Bakunin

You all know the reasons which have impelled me to renounce the throne. But I want you to understand that in making up my mind I did not forget the country or the empire, which, as Prince of Wales and lately as King, I have for twenty-five years tried to serve.
King Edward VIII

No one who has lived even for a fleeting moment for something other than life in its conventional sense and has experienced the exaltation that this feeling produces can then renounce his new freedom so easily.
Andre Breton

It was in our power to cause the Arab governments to renounce the policy of strength toward Israel by turning it into a demonstration of weakness.
Moshe Dayan

Crave for a thing, you will get it. Renounce the craving, the object will follow you by itself.
Swami Sivananda

You must renounce all superficiality, all convention, all vanity and delusion.
Gustav Mahler

In order to remain true to oneself one ought to renounce one's party three times a day.
Jean Rostand

Renounce Translations

renounce in Dutch is opgeven, uitvallen, afstand doen van
renounce in Finnish is alistua
renounce in German is verzichten, verzichtest
renounce in Hungarian is renonsz
renounce in Spanish is renunciar, desistir

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