abrenounce
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Medieval Latin abrenunciare, from Latin ab- (“from”) + renuntio (“revoke”).[1]
Pronunciation[edit]
Verb[edit]
abrenounce (third-person singular simple present abrenounces, present participle abrenouncing, simple past and past participle abrenounced)
- (transitive, obsolete) To renounce; to contradict. [Attested from the mid 16th century until the mid 17th century.][1]
- They abrenounce and cast them off. - Latimer
References[edit]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 2003 [1933], Brown, Lesley editor, The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary, edition 5th, Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, ISBN 978-0-19-860575-7, page 8:
