Associations to the word «Renounce»

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".

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats