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avsvära — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • abjure verb To solemnly reject (someone or something); to abandon (someone or something) forever; to disavow, to disclaim, to repudiate.
  • deprecate verb To express disapproval of, protest or plead against.

Senses

avsvära is used for these senses in English:

  • deprecate (transitive) To express disapproval of, protest or plead against.
  • deprecate (archaic, transitive) To pray against.

abjure — full definition

  1. verb To solemnly reject (someone or something); to abandon (someone or something) forever; to disavow, to disclaim, to repudiate.
  2. verb To renounce (something) upon oath; to forswear; specifically, to recant or retract (a heresy or some other opinion); to withdraw.
  3. verb To cause (someone) to recant or retract (a heresy or some other opinion).
  4. verb Especially in abjure the realm: to swear an oath to leave (a place) forever.

deprecate — full definition

  1. verb To express disapproval of, protest or plead against.
  2. verb To belittle, depreciate.
  3. verb To declare something obsolescent; to recommend against a function, technique, command, etc. that still works but has been replaced.
  4. verb To pray against.

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