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词汇 abjure
释义 abjure
verb[ T ]
 formaluk /əbˈdʒʊər/ us /əbˈdʒʊr/
to say formally or publicly that you no longer agree with a belief or way of behaving: 公开放弃,声明放弃(信念、行为、活动)
He abjured his religion/his life of dissipation.他宣布放弃所信仰的宗教/结束放荡的生活。
Synonyms
forswearformal
recantformal
retractformal
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Refusing & rejecting
abjuration
abnegate
abnegation
bar
bat something/someone away
decline
disavow
gainsay
oppositional
opt
opt out
pass on
pass something up
punt on something
rebel
refuse
sb wouldn't touch something/someone with a bargepole/barge poleidiom
tear
wash your hands of somethingidiom
would not do something for all the tea in Chinaidiom

Examples of abjure


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The assumption is that he had attained citizenship, either through marriage or through naturalization, and at that point may have been abjured from returning.
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He abjures the coherent, instantly understandable, text and the consistent oeuvre in favour of a proliferation that reflects the fundamentally nonlinear character of cognition.
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The film upholds the value of compassion and abjures all forms of retribution.
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Thus, he proceeded to pressure several priests and bishops into abjuring their positions.
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The guest agreed tacitly to take an oath of truce and symbolically abjured all vengeance.
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He abjures the decadence of modern life...
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The violent capture of all existing governments is one article of the creed of that faith communism, which abjures the possibility of success by lawful means.
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Nothing on earth would lead me to abjure that power because it has to be used in the national interest.
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To guarantee these children a first-rate education is just as important a principle in the national interest as to abjure selection.
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He upset some good people who belonged to none of these categories yet still wanted to abjure nuclear defence.
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The thing which we absolutely abjure and abhor is the idea that there should be first and second-class citizens.
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Let him publicly condemn violence; let him abjure violence, and a new situation would be immediately created.
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They proposed that nations should abjure the use of force.
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We must make up our minds to abjure that principle whatever consequent difficulties or embarrassments arise.
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We abjure any need to adapt ourselves to changing world conditions.
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