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Abjure meaning
To solemnly reject (someone or something); to abandon (someone or something) forever; to disavow, to disclaim, to repudiate. | To renounce (something) upon oath; to forswear; specifically, to recant or retract (a heresy or some other opinion); to withdraw. | To cause (someone) to recant or retract (a heresy or some other opinion).
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Example sentences (6)
Or can they protest, criticize, insist that these are mistakes that a future pope should abjure or overturn, or even find ways to resist him?
After fomenting two world wars and carrying out the most egregious genocide in human history, the Germans insist they abjure aggression and take seriously their "special responsibility" to protect the Jewish state.
The editorial points out that the government has done little to abjure media censorship and pressures the latter faces.
He was required to "abjure, curse and detest" those opinions.
Nonetheless, in 1648, Parliament determined that it was not to abjure the King's person; that is, depose him from the throne.
To obtain mastery over his kingdom, after four years of stalemate, he found it prudent to abjure the Calvinist faith.