Formally reject or disavow a formerly held belief, usually under pressure.
To refuse strongly and solemnly to own or acknowledge.
1 Wizards abjure all ties to family and kingdom when they become neophytes.
2 The men of yonder village consent to abjure the worship of Apollo.
3 Du Bruel entered public life; she made him abjure his Royalist opinions.
4 It is not all women but all female confidence tricksters I abjure .
5 He did not pretend that she was to abjure her Protestant faith.
6 Sir Stephen would cry fie upon you, and Joshua Pettigrue abjure you!
7 Here, cousin Wilfred of Ivanhoe, in thy favour I renounce and abjure - Hey
8 He is asked if he will recant and abjure his error.
9 He must abjure wealth and position, in favour of humble kindliness and serviceableness.
10 Pawnbrokers, like emergency room doctors and other small gods, had to abjure sympathy.
11 She insisted that Hector should abjure Annie, or leave the house.
12 They abjure the world, that they may not imbibe its spirit.
13 Do they abjure women and so consort only with their brethren?'
14 We must by no means abjure virtue, which secures us affection.
15 He will then abjure the other King with a mental reservation.
16 We will abjure politics, and you shall give me my revenge at golf.
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