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Significados de abjure en inglés

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abjurar
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retractar-se

Formally reject or disavow a formerly held belief, usually under pressure.

        abjurar

        To refuse strongly and solemnly to own or acknowledge.

            Uso de abjure en inglés
            1
            Wizards abjure all ties to family and kingdom when they become neophytes.
            Spellwright
            2
            The men of yonder village consent to abjure the worship of Apollo.
            The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 2, No. 14, December 1858 / A Magazi...
            3
            Du Bruel entered public life; she made him abjure his Royalist opinions.
            A Prince of Bohemia
            4
            It is not all women but all female confidence tricksters I abjure.
            Rogues
            5
            He did not pretend that she was to abjure her Protestant faith.
            The Rise of the Dutch Republic — Volume 06: 1560-61
            6
            Sir Stephen would cry fie upon you, and Joshua Pettigrue abjure you!
            Micah Clarke / His Statement as made to his three grandchildren ...
            7
            Here, cousin Wilfred of Ivanhoe, in thy favour I renounce and abjure-Hey
            The World's Greatest Books — Volume 07 — Fiction
            8
            He is asked if he will recant and abjure his error.
            History of the Conflict Between Religion and Science
            9
            He must abjure wealth and position, in favour of humble kindliness and serviceableness.
            From a College Window
            10
            Pawnbrokers, like emergency room doctors and other small gods, had to abjure sympathy.
            Burning bright
            11
            She insisted that Hector should abjure Annie, or leave the house.
            Far Above Rubies
            12
            They abjure the world, that they may not imbibe its spirit.
            A Portraiture of Quakerism, Volume 1 / Taken from a View of the ...
            13
            Do they abjure women and so consort only with their brethren?'
            Forge of Darkness
            14
            We must by no means abjure virtue, which secures us affection.
            Treatises on Friendship and Old Age
            15
            He will then abjure the other King with a mental reservation.
            The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume ...
            16
            We will abjure politics, and you shall give me my revenge at golf.
            A Lost Leader
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