abjurer

English

Alternative forms

• abjuror

Etymology

Etymology tree

English abjure

Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.

Proto-Italic *-āzios

Latin -āriusnom.

Latin -āriusbor.

Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz

Proto-West Germanic *-ārī

Old English -ere

Middle English -ere

English -er

English abjurer

From abjure + -er.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /æbˈd͡ʒʊɹ.ɚ/

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Noun

abjurer (plural abjurers)

1. One who abjures. [From 16th century]
   • 1583, John Foxe, Actes and Monuments‎^[1], 4th edition, London: John Daye, Volume 2, Book 7:

     To thys Iames Morden with other moe abiurers, it was enioyned by Bishoppe Smith, for seuen yeares, to visite the church of Lincolne twise a yeare from Amersham.

   • 1655, William Prynne, A New Discovery of Free-State Tyranny‎^[2], London: for the author, page 25:

     […] to force him by tedious uncomfortable imprisonments, and extreame penury to turn a practicall Apostate and perjured abjurer of all his former Orthodox loyall Principles […]

   • 1777, Richard Brinsley Sheridan, The School for Scandal, III.iii:

     [N]o man can pretend to be a Believer in Love, who is an abjurer of wine—'tis the Test by which a Lover knows his own Heart—

Translations

one who abjures

• Dutch: afzweerder m, verzaker m, herroeper,
• Portuguese: abjurador m

French

Etymology

From Middle French abiurer, abjurer, from Old French abjurer (“to reject or renounce (something) on oath”), borrowed from Latin abiūrāre (“to deny on oath, recant, renounce, repudiate, abjure”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ab.ʒy.ʁe/

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Verb

abjurer

1. (ambitransitive, very formal) to renounce or abandon solemnly; to abjure
2. (ambitransitive, religion) to formally renounce one's religious belief; to apostatise
3. (obsolete) to reject by oath someone's authority

Conjugation

Conjugation of abjurer (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	abjurer
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	abjurant /ab.ʒy.ʁɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		abjuré /ab.ʒy.ʁe/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	abjure /ab.ʒyʁ/	abjures /ab.ʒyʁ/	abjure /ab.ʒyʁ/	abjurons /ab.ʒy.ʁɔ̃/	abjurez /ab.ʒy.ʁe/	abjurent /ab.ʒyʁ/
	imperfect	abjurais /ab.ʒy.ʁɛ/	abjurais /ab.ʒy.ʁɛ/	abjurait /ab.ʒy.ʁɛ/	abjurions /ab.ʒy.ʁjɔ̃/	abjuriez /ab.ʒy.ʁje/	abjuraient /ab.ʒy.ʁɛ/
	past historic2	abjurai /ab.ʒy.ʁe/	abjuras /ab.ʒy.ʁa/	abjura /ab.ʒy.ʁa/	abjurâmes /ab.ʒy.ʁam/	abjurâtes /ab.ʒy.ʁat/	abjurèrent /ab.ʒy.ʁɛʁ/
	future	abjurerai /ab.ʒy.ʁə.ʁe/	abjureras /ab.ʒy.ʁə.ʁa/	abjurera /ab.ʒy.ʁə.ʁa/	abjurerons /ab.ʒy.ʁə.ʁɔ̃/	abjurerez /ab.ʒy.ʁə.ʁe/	abjureront /ab.ʒy.ʁə.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	abjurerais /ab.ʒy.ʁə.ʁɛ/	abjurerais /ab.ʒy.ʁə.ʁɛ/	abjurerait /ab.ʒy.ʁə.ʁɛ/	abjurerions /ab.ʒy.ʁə.ʁjɔ̃/	abjureriez /ab.ʒy.ʁə.ʁje/	abjureraient /ab.ʒy.ʁə.ʁɛ/
(compound tenses)	present perfect	present indicative of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect	imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle
	past anterior2	past historic of avoir + past participle
	future perfect	future of avoir + past participle
	conditional perfect	conditional of avoir + past participle
subjunctive		que je (j’)	que tu	qu’il, qu’elle	que nous	que vous	qu’ils, qu’elles
(simple tenses)	present	abjure /ab.ʒyʁ/	abjures /ab.ʒyʁ/	abjure /ab.ʒyʁ/	abjurions /ab.ʒy.ʁjɔ̃/	abjuriez /ab.ʒy.ʁje/	abjurent /ab.ʒyʁ/
	imperfect2	abjurasse /ab.ʒy.ʁas/	abjurasses /ab.ʒy.ʁas/	abjurât /ab.ʒy.ʁa/	abjurassions /ab.ʒy.ʁa.sjɔ̃/	abjurassiez /ab.ʒy.ʁa.sje/	abjurassent /ab.ʒy.ʁas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	abjure /ab.ʒyʁ/	—	abjurons /ab.ʒy.ʁɔ̃/	abjurez /ab.ʒy.ʁe/	—
compound		—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—
1 The French gerund is usable only with the preposition en.
2 In less formal writing or speech, these tenses may be found to have been replaced in the following way: past historic → present perfect past anterior → pluperfect imperfect subjunctive → present subjunctive pluperfect subjunctive → past subjunctive (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).

Further reading

• “abjurer”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012