abrenounce

Definition

To renounce; to contradict.

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Medieval Latin abrenunciare, from Latin ab- (“from”) + renuntio (“revoke”).

Example Sentences

• "Many of theſe might ſeem ingrate and unkind children, that vvill no better acknovvledge and recogniſe their parents in vvords and outvvard pretence, but abrenounce and caſt them off, as though they hated them as dogs and ſerpents."