Associations to the word «Renounce»
Noun
- Citizenship
- Allegiance
- Pretension
- Vow
- Throne
- Pomp
- Nationality
- Claim
- Sovereignty
- Knighthood
- Oath
- Catholicism
- Casimir
- Chastity
- Sigismund
- Treaty
- Vanity
- Pact
- Succession
- Heresy
- Baptism
- Protestantism
- Reparation
- Inheritance
- Habsburg
- Papacy
- Penance
- Fief
- Kellogg
- Favour
- Faith
- Duchy
- Marxism
- Christianity
- Pledge
- Silesia
- Tamil
- Anjou
- Militant
- Aquitaine
- Obedience
- Peerage
- Homage
- Privilege
- Priesthood
- Dowry
- Terrorism
- Favor
- Regency
- Hermit
- Supremacy
- Refusal
- Buddha
- Bohemia
- Satan
- Saxe
- Heir
- Austerity
- Ottomans
- Edict
- Maximilian
- Persecution
- Kingship
- Communism
Verb
Wiktionary
RENOUNCE, noun. (card games) An act of renouncing.
RENOUNCE, verb. (transitive) To give up, resign, surrender, atsake.
RENOUNCE, verb. (transitive) To cast off, repudiate; to .
RENOUNCE, verb. (transitive) To decline further association with someone or something, disown.
RENOUNCE, verb. (transitive) To abandon, forsake, discontinue (an action, habit, intention, etc), sometimes by open declaration.
RENOUNCE, verb. (intransitive) To make a renunciation of something.
RENOUNCE, verb. (intransitive) To surrender formally some right or trust.
RENOUNCE, verb. (intransitive) (card games) To fail to follow suit; playing a card of a different suit when having no card of the suit led.
Dictionary definition
RENOUNCE, verb. Give up, such as power, as of monarchs and emperors, or duties and obligations; "The King abdicated when he married a divorcee".
RENOUNCE, verb. Leave (a job, post, or position) voluntarily; "She vacated the position when she got pregnant"; "The chairman resigned when he was found to have misappropriated funds".
RENOUNCE, verb. Turn away from; give up; "I am foreswearing women forever".
RENOUNCE, verb. Cast off; "She renounced her husband"; "The parents repudiated their son".
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