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renounce.

An act of renouncing.

8 characters2 syllables approx.English language

Meaning & usage

noun/ɹɪˈnaʊns/
  1. An act of renouncing.

Where this word comes from

From Old French renoncier (French renoncer), from Latin renūntiō. Doublet of renunciate.

verb/ɹɪˈnaʊns/
  1. To give up, resign, surrender.

    transitive
    to renounce a title to land or to a throne
  2. To cast off, repudiate.

    transitive
  3. To decline further association with someone or something, disown.

    transitive
  4. To abandon, forsake, discontinue (an action, habit, intention, etc), sometimes by open declaration.

    transitive
  5. To make a renunciation of something.

    intransitive
  6. To surrender formally some right or trust.

    intransitive
  7. To fail to follow suit; playing a card of a different suit when having no card of the suit led.

    intransitive
Where this word comes from

From Old French renoncier (French renoncer), from Latin renūntiō. Doublet of renunciate.

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