renounce
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: card-games
games
Etymology: From Old French renoncier (French renoncer), from Latin renūntiō. Doublet of renunciate.
Inflected forms:
form: renounces
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: renounces
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: renouncing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: renounced
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: renounced
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: An act of renouncing.
pos: noun
gloss: To give up, resign, surrender.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: 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.
gloss: To cast off, repudiate.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: This world I do renounce, and in your sights
Shake patiently my great affliction off.
gloss: To decline further association with someone or something, disown.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To abandon, forsake, discontinue (an action, habit, intention, etc), sometimes by open declaration.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: […] 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.
gloss: To make a renunciation of something.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: He of my sons who fails to make it good, / By one rebellious act renounces to my blood.
gloss: To surrender formally some right or trust.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: Dryden died without a will, and his widow having renounced, his son Charles administered on June 10.
gloss: To fail to follow suit; playing a card of a different suit when having no card of the suit led.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
Synonyms: forsay
forswear
Related words: announce
denounce
pronounce
Derived words: nonrenouncing
renounceable
renouncement
renouncer
renounce the world
unrenounced
unrenouncing
Translations:
lang: Bulgarian
word: изоставям
roman: izostavjam
lang: Finnish
word: hylätä
lang: Finnish
word: luopua
lang: German
word: aufgeben
lang: Hungarian
word: elhagy
lang: Hungarian
word: lemond
lang: Hungarian
word: felad
lang: Hungarian
word: megszüntet
lang: Hungarian
word: abbahagy
lang: Hungarian
word: felhagy
lang: Hungarian
word: megtagad
lang: Irish
word: tréig
lang: Old Irish
word: do·beir druimm fri
lang: Italian
word: abbandonare
lang: Norwegian
word: gi avkall
lang: Norwegian
word: renonsere
lang: Romanian
word: abandona
lang: Russian
word: отступа́ться
roman: otstupátʹsja
lang: Russian
word: отступи́ться
roman: otstupítʹsja
lang: Sanskrit
word: जहाति
roman: jahāti
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: napustiti
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: dići ruke
lang: Tamil
word: துற
roman: tuṟa
lang: Tocharian B
word: ār-