What does abjure mean?
Definitions for abjure
æbˈdʒʊər, -ˈdʒɜrab·jure
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Princeton's WordNet
abjure, recant, forswear, retract, resileverb
formally reject or disavow a formerly held belief, usually under pressure
"He retracted his earlier statements about his religion"; "She abjured her beliefs"
Wiktionary
abjureverb
To renounce upon oath; to forswear; to disavow.
abjureverb
To renounce or reject with solemnity; to recant; to abandon forever; to reject; repudiate; to swear an oath to leave.
To abjure errors.
abjureverb
To abstain from.
Etymology: * First attested in 1430.
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
To ABJUREverb
Etymology: abjuro, Lat.
Either to die the death, or to abjure
For ever the society of man. William Shakespeare, Midsum. Night’s Dream.No man, therefore, that hath not abjured his reason, and sworn allegiance to a preconceived fantastical hypothesis, can undertake the defence of such a supposition. Matthew Hale, Origin of Mankind.
Wikipedia
abjure
Abjuration is the solemn repudiation, abandonment, or renunciation by or upon oath, often the renunciation of citizenship or some other right or privilege. The term comes from the Latin abjurare, "to forswear".
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abjure
Abjure generally means to solemnly renounce or reject a belief, cause, or claim, often in a formal statement or publicly. It can also refer to the act of giving up personal rights or an oath.
Webster Dictionary
Abjureverb
to renounce upon oath; to forswear; to disavow; as, to abjure allegiance to a prince. To abjure the realm, is to swear to abandon it forever
Abjureverb
to renounce or reject with solemnity; to recant; to abandon forever; to reject; repudiate; as, to abjure errors
Abjureverb
to renounce on oath
Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
Abjure
ab-jōōr′, v.t. to renounce on oath or solemnly: to recant: to repudiate.—n. Abjurā′tion, official renunciation on oath of any principle or pretension.—adj. Abjur′atory.—n. Abjur′er. [L. ab, from, jurāre, -ātum, to swear.]
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of abjure in Chaldean Numerology is: 8
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of abjure in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3
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- اِرْتَدَّArabic
- [[отричам]] [[се]] [[под]] [[клетва]], отказвам, отхвърлямBulgarian
- abschwörenGerman
- abjurerFrench
- abiurareItalian
- afzweren, [[verzaken]] [[aan]] een [[eed]], verzaken, herroepenDutch
- abjurarPortuguese
- отказываться, отрекаться, отречься, [[отрицать]] [[под]] [[присяга, [[торжественно]] [[отрекаться]], отказаться, [[клятвенно]] [[отрекаться]]Russian
- avsväraSwedish
- خرابیUrdu
- 绝妙的Chinese
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