Renounce: Definition and part of speech

Renounce

  1. n. Act of renouncing.
  2. v. t. To declare against; to reject or decline formally; to refuse to own or acknowledge as belonging to one; to disclaim; as, to renounce a title to land or to a throne.
  3. v. t. To cast off or reject deliberately; to disown; to dismiss; to forswear.
  4. v. t. To disclaim having a card of (the suit led) by playing a card of another suit.
  5. v. i. To make renunciation.
  6. v. i. To decline formally, as an executor or a person entitled to letters of administration, to take out probate or letters.
  7. The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

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