renounce
/ɹɪˈnaʊns/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.19 in modern English
10
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
An act of renouncing.
verb
To abandon, forsake, discontinue (an action, habit, intention, etc), sometimes by open declaration.
Transitive verb
Example Sentences
- "to renounce a title to land or to a throne"
- "It is terrible to think of the power of the world even in a redeemed soul. Here was a maid who had drunk of the well of grace and tasted of God's mercies, and yet there were moments when she was ready to renounce her hope."
- "This world I do renounce, and in your sights Shake patiently my great affliction off."
- "[…] some families renounced the use of a certain praenomen which had been disgraced by one of their name […]"
- "His son Sidhartha had renounced material life and gone forth in search of enlightment. He received enlightment under a Bodhi tree at Gaya and became Buddha. Ashoka visited Gaya along with Upagupta and had darshan of Sambodhi."
- "Time is running out, so I renounce a spin on a Class 387 for a fast run to Paddington on another Class 800 - a shame as the weather was perfect for pictures. Even so, it's enjoyable - boy, can those trains shift under the wires."
Etymology
From Old French renoncier (French renoncer), from Latin renūntiō. Doublet of renunciate.