Renounce
verb
To declare that you will no longer have something or be associated with someone.
He renounced his citizenship
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- renounce citizenship
- renounce claim
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Neutral
verb
To state publicly that you reject a belief or way of behaving.
She renounced her evil ways
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- renounce belief
- renounce faith
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Neutral
verb
To refuse to recognize or abide by any longer.
The company renounced the agreement
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- renounce agreement
- renounce responsibility
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Formal, Neutral
verb
To declare that you will no longer have something or be associated with someone.
He renounced his citizenship
Often appears as...
- renounce citizenship
- renounce claim
Usage tips
Neutral
verb
To state publicly that you reject a belief or way of behaving.
She renounced her evil ways
Often appears as...
- renounce belief
- renounce faith
Usage tips
Neutral
verb
To refuse to recognize or abide by any longer.
The company renounced the agreement
Often appears as...
- renounce agreement
- renounce responsibility
Usage tips
Formal, Neutral
Definition 1 of 3
Pro Tip 1/3Final Decision
Use 'renounce' when someone makes a strong, often public decision to give something up.
After years of discovery, he renounced his noble title.
Pro Tip 2/3Irrevocable Action
'Renounce' implies a definitive and often irreversible action.
Once she renounced her inheritance, there was no going back.
Pro Tip 3/3Public Statement
The act of renouncing is frequently done publicly, in front of witnesses or via official statement.
He renounced his position at the press conference.
Pro Tip 1/3Final Decision
Use 'renounce' when someone makes a strong, often public decision to give something up.
After years of discovery, he renounced his noble title.
Pro Tip 2/3Irrevocable Action
'Renounce' implies a definitive and often irreversible action.
Once she renounced her inheritance, there was no going back.
Pro Tip 3/3Public Statement
The act of renouncing is frequently done publicly, in front of witnesses or via official statement.
He renounced his position at the press conference.
Pro Tip 1/3Final Decision
Use 'renounce' when someone makes a strong, often public decision to give something up.
After years of discovery, he renounced his noble title.
Pro Tip 2/3Irrevocable Action
'Renounce' implies a definitive and often irreversible action.
Once she renounced her inheritance, there was no going back.
Pro Tip 3/3Public Statement
The act of renouncing is frequently done publicly, in front of witnesses or via official statement.
He renounced his position at the press conference.
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The gospel of doubt PIPE...
without waiting for our permission. This doubt compels me to renounce the role of savior that some have placed on me, because our time is too short and our odds are too long to wait for second comings, when the truth is that there will be no miracles here.
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The secret student...
raining tens of thousands of leaflets on people below. Written by anonymous Germans, the leaflets urged readers to renounce Hitler, to fight furiously for the future— and to never give up hope. Their call to action rippled through homes and businesses—
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Alexandra Fuller: Born...
I was ready swear you in and Wyoming and it was a jolly difficult decision well I didn't really feel very British that where I was all right about leaving up my British passport in general although they made me renounce the Prince I said
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The gospel of doubt PIPE...
without waiting for our permission. This doubt compels me to renounce the role of savior that some have placed on me, because our time is too short and our odds are too long to wait for second comings, when the truth is that there will be no miracles here.
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The secret student...
raining tens of thousands of leaflets on people below. Written by anonymous Germans, the leaflets urged readers to renounce Hitler, to fight furiously for the future— and to never give up hope. Their call to action rippled through homes and businesses—
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Alexandra Fuller: Born...
I was ready swear you in and Wyoming and it was a jolly difficult decision well I didn't really feel very British that where I was all right about leaving up my British passport in general although they made me renounce the Prince I said
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Quote examples
Ellen Terry
English Actress
If it is the mark of the artist to love art before everything, to renounce everything for its sake, to think all the sweet human things of life well lost if only he may attain something, do some good, great work - then I was never an artist.
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Gary Bauer
American Public Servant
It's important for American soldiers to be culturally sensitive when deployed in foreign countries. But it's just as important for the U.S. never to renounce the most fundamental American values, which, after all, are also universal values.
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Thomas Paine
English Activist
To argue with a man who has renounced the use and authority of reason, and whose philosophy consists in holding humanity in contempt, is like administering medicine to the dead, or endeavoring to convert an atheist by scripture.
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Nathan Myhrvold
American Businessman
Mankind is not special by virtue of our address in the universe, or what spins around us, or because life originated here. Slowly, but surely, we've been compelled to renounce the comfort of these beliefs.
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Emile Durkheim
French Sociologist
It is too great comfort which turns a man against himself. Life is most readily renounced at the time and among the classes where it is least harsh.
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Milovan Djilas
Politician
The strongest are those who renounce their own times and become a living part of those yet to come. The strongest and the rarest.
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Thomas Carlyle
Scottish Philosopher
Sarcasm I now see to be, in general, the language of the devil; for which reason I have long since as good as renounced it.
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Heraclitus
Greek Philosopher
The best people renounce all for one goal, the eternal fame of mortals; but most people stuff themselves like cattle.
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Albert Camus
French Philosopher
I have never been able to renounce the light, the pleasure of being, and the freedom in which I grew up.
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A. A. Milne
English Author
War is something of man's own fostering, and if all mankind renounces it, then it is no longer there.
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Ellen Terry
English Actress
If it is the mark of the artist to love art before everything, to renounce everything for its sake, to think all the sweet human things of life well lost if only he may attain something, do some good, great work - then I was never an artist.
Quote examples
Gary Bauer
American Public Servant
It's important for American soldiers to be culturally sensitive when deployed in foreign countries. But it's just as important for the U.S. never to renounce the most fundamental American values, which, after all, are also universal values.
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Thomas Paine
English Activist
To argue with a man who has renounced the use and authority of reason, and whose philosophy consists in holding humanity in contempt, is like administering medicine to the dead, or endeavoring to convert an atheist by scripture.
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Nathan Myhrvold
American Businessman
Mankind is not special by virtue of our address in the universe, or what spins around us, or because life originated here. Slowly, but surely, we've been compelled to renounce the comfort of these beliefs.
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Emile Durkheim
French Sociologist
It is too great comfort which turns a man against himself. Life is most readily renounced at the time and among the classes where it is least harsh.
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Milovan Djilas
Politician
The strongest are those who renounce their own times and become a living part of those yet to come. The strongest and the rarest.
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Thomas Carlyle
Scottish Philosopher
Sarcasm I now see to be, in general, the language of the devil; for which reason I have long since as good as renounced it.
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Heraclitus
Greek Philosopher
The best people renounce all for one goal, the eternal fame of mortals; but most people stuff themselves like cattle.
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Albert Camus
French Philosopher
I have never been able to renounce the light, the pleasure of being, and the freedom in which I grew up.
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A. A. Milne
English Author
War is something of man's own fostering, and if all mankind renounces it, then it is no longer there.
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