abjure.
To solemnly reject (someone or something); to abandon (someone or something) forever; to disavow, to disclaim, to repudiate.
Meaning & usage
To solemnly reject (someone or something); to abandon (someone or something) forever; to disavow, to disclaim, to repudiate.
to abjure errors
To renounce (something) upon oath; to forswear; specifically, to recant or retract (a heresy or some other opinion); to withdraw.
to abjure allegiance to a prince
To cause (someone) to recant or retract (a heresy or some other opinion).
Especially in abjure the realm: to swear an oath to leave (a place) forever.
To cause or compel (someone) to leave a place forever; to banish.
To solemnly reject; to abandon forever.
To recant or retract a heresy on oath.
To swear an oath to leave a place forever.
Where this word comes from
From Late Middle English abjuren (“to give up (something); to recant or renounce (something) under oath”), from Anglo-Norman abjurer, Middle French abiurer, abjurer, and Old French abjurer (“to reject or renounce (something) on oath”) (modern French abjurer), and from their etymon Latin abiūrāre, the present active infinitive of abiūrō (“to deny on oath, recant, renounce, repudiate, abjure”), from ab- (prefix meaning ‘away from, from’) + iūro (“to take an oath, swear, vow”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₂yew- (“(adjective) right; straight; upright; (noun) justice; law; right”).
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