Renounce

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -aÊŠns

Origin

From Latin renuntiare.

Full definition of renounce

Noun

1. (card games) An act of renouncing.

Related terms

• renunciation

Verb

1. (transitive) To give up, resign, surrender.to renounce a title to land or to a throne
2. (transitive) To cast off, repudiate.
• ShakespeareThis world I do renounce, and in your sights
  Shake patiently my great affliction off.
3. (transitive) To decline further association with someone or something, disown.
4. (transitive) To abandon, forsake, discontinue (an action, habit, intention, etc), sometimes by open declaration.
5. (intransitive) To make a renunciation of something.
• DrydenHe of my sons who fails to make it good,
  By one rebellious act renounces to my blood.
6. (intransitive) To surrender formally some right or trust.
• W. D. ChristieDryden died without a will, and his widow having renounced, his son Charles administered on June 10.
7. (intransitive, card games) To fail to follow suit; playing a card of a different suit when having no card of the suit led.

Derived terms

• renounceable
• renouncement
• renouncer

Related terms

• announce
• denounce
• pronounce