# renounce
## English
### Etymology

From Old French renoncier (French renoncer), from Latin renuntiare.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ɹɪˈnaʊns/
* Rhymes: -aʊns
** Audio (Southern England):(file)

### Noun

renounce (plural renounces)
* (card games) An act of renouncing.

#### Related terms

* renunciation

### Verb

renounce (third-person singular simple present renounces, present participle renouncing, simple past and past participle renounced)
* (transitive) To give up, resign, surrender.
    Synonym: (obsolete) atsake
    to renounce a title to land or to a throne
** 1902, John Buchan, The Outgoing of the Tide: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.
* (transitive) To cast off, repudiate.
** c. 1603–1606, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of King Lear”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene vi]:This world I do renounce, and in your sights Shake patiently my great affliction off.
* (transitive) To decline further association with someone or something, disown.
    Synonyms: disown, repudiate; see also Thesaurus:repudiate
* (transitive) To abandon, forsake, discontinue (an action, habit, intention, etc), sometimes by open declaration.
** 2012 May 18, Sri B. G. Ramesh, translated by Sri M. N. Suresh Kumar, Ashoka‎, Bangalore: Sapna Book House (P) Ltd., →ISBN, page 14: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.
** 2020 December 2, Paul Bigland, “My weirdest and wackiest Rover yet”, in Rail, page 68: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.
* (intransitive) To make a renunciation of something.
** 1687,, “(please specify the page number)”, in The Hind and the Panther. A Poem, in Three Parts, 2nd edition, London: […] Jacob Tonson […], →OCLC:He of my sons who fails to make it good, / By one rebellious act renounces to my blood.
* (intransitive) To surrender formally some right or trust.
** 1870, William Dougal Christie, Memoir of John Dryden:Dryden died without a will, and his widow having renounced, his son Charles administered on June 10.
* (intransitive, card games) To fail to follow suit; playing a card of a different suit when having no card of the suit led.

#### Synonyms

* forsay
* forswear

#### Derived terms

* renounce the world
* renounceable
* renouncement
* renouncer

#### Related terms

* announce
* denounce
* pronounce

#### Translations

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### References

* “renounce”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.