abiurare — meaning in English
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English meaning
Senses
abiurare is used for these senses in English:
- defy (transitive, obsolete) To renounce or dissolve all bonds of affiance, faith, or obligation with; to reject, refuse, or renounce.
abjure — full definition
- verb To solemnly reject (someone or something); to abandon (someone or something) forever; to disavow, to disclaim, to repudiate.
- verb To renounce (something) upon oath; to forswear; specifically, to recant or retract (a heresy or some other opinion); to withdraw.
- verb To cause (someone) to recant or retract (a heresy or some other opinion).
- verb Especially in abjure the realm: to swear an oath to leave (a place) forever.
defy — full definition
- verb To openly refuse to obey or comply with something.
- verb To resist or fail to conform to something, as if impossible to overcome.