Abjure Definition

ăb-jo͝or
abjured, abjures, abjuring
verb
abjured, abjures, abjuring
To recant solemnly; renounce or repudiate.
American Heritage
To give up (rights, allegiance, etc.) under oath; renounce.
Webster's New World
To renounce under oath; forswear.
American Heritage
To give up (opinions) publicly; recant.
Webster's New World

To renounce upon oath; to forswear; to disavow. [First attested around 1350 to 1470.]

To abjure allegiance to a prince.
To abjure the realm (to swear to abandon it forever).
Wiktionary
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Origin of Abjure

  • From Middle English abjuren, from Latin abiūrō (“deny upon oath”) (possibly via Middle French abjurer), formed from ab (“from, away from”) + iūro (“swear or take an oath”), from iūs (“law, right, duty”).

    From Wiktionary

  • Middle English abjuren from Old French abjurer from Latin abiūrāre ab- away ab–1 iūrāre to swear yewes- in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Abjure Sentence Examples

  • He was asked whether certain books had been written by him and whether he was prepared to maintain or to abjure what he had written.

  • Many hellenizers rallied round those who were minded to die rather than abjure their religion.

  • When he came into the theatre the proconsul urged him to "revile Christ," and promised, if he would consent to abjure his faith, that he would set him at liberty.

  • The final judgment found no proof of heresy, but compelled him to abjure sixteen errors, rather extorted than extracted from his writings, suspended him from his see for five years, and secluded him to the Dominican cloister of Sta Maria sopra Minerva.

  • In an old confession of faith, the convert is pledged to abjure the theft and robbery of cattle and the ravaging of villages inhabited by worshippers of Mazda (Yasna, 12, 2).

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