abjure

Meaning

1. (formal, transitive) To solemnly reject (someone or something); to abandon (someone or something) forever; to disavow, to disclaim, to repudiate.
2. (formal, historical, transitive) To renounce (something) upon oath; to forswear; specifically, to recant or retract (a heresy or some other opinion); to withdraw.
3. (formal, historical, transitive) To cause (someone) to recant or retract (a heresy or some other opinion).
4. (formal, historical, transitive) Especially in abjure the realm: to swear an oath to leave (a place) forever.
5. (formal, historical, obsolete, rare, transitive) To cause or compel (someone) to leave a place forever; to banish.
6. (formal, intransitive) To solemnly reject; to abandon forever.
7. (formal, historical, intransitive) To recant or retract a heresy on oath.
8. (formal, historical, intransitive) To swear an oath to leave a place forever.

Synonyms

renounce

deny

abrogate

abolish

remit

annul

recant

cancel

retract

forswear

disown

abnegate

disavow

repudiate

reject

disclaim

disaffirm

refuse

swear off

resile

quit

spurn

abandon

belie

repel

repulse

shun

taboo

waive

beat off

throw back

distance oneself from

renounce upon oath

put away

abdicate

abstain from

avoid

ban

bar

cast off

contradict

debar

disallow

embargo

fend off

forbid

give

ignore

interdict

negate

Translations

abjurer

afzweren

abjurar

abiurare

renunciar

abschwören

verleugnen

verzaken

abjurar

rinnegare

renier

ontkennen

verloochenen

désavouer

abiurare

Pronounced as (IPA)

/æbˈd͡ʒʊɹ/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: abjuren

In summary

From Late Middle English abjuren (“to give up (something); to recant or renounce (something) under oath”), from Anglo-Norman abjurer, Middle French abiurer, abjurer, and Old French abjurer (“to reject or renounce (something) on oath”) (modern French abjurer), and from their etymon Latin abiūrāre, the present active infinitive of abiūrō (“to deny on oath, recant, renounce, repudiate, abjure”), from ab- (prefix meaning ‘away from, from’) + iūro (“to take an oath, swear, vow”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₂yew- (“(adjective) right; straight; upright; (noun) justice; law; right”).