renounce

English

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old French renoncier (French renoncer), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin renuntiare.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -aʊns

Noun

renounce (plural renounces)

1. (card games) An act of renouncing.

Related terms

• renunciation

Verb

1. (transitive) To give up, resign, surrender, atsake.

   to renounce a title to land or to a throne

2. (transitive) To cast off, repudiate.
   • (Can we date this quote by Shakespeare and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)

     This world I do renounce, and in your sights / Shake patiently my great affliction off.

3. (transitive) To decline further association with someone or something, disown.
4. (transitive) To abandon, forsake, discontinue (an action, habit, intention, etc), sometimes by open declaration.
5. (intransitive) To make a renunciation of something.
   • (Can we date this quote by Dryden and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)

     He of my sons who fails to make it good, / By one rebellious act renounces to my blood.

6. (intransitive) To surrender formally some right or trust.
   • (Can we date this quote by W. D. Christie and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)

     Dryden died without a will, and his widow having renounced, his son Charles administered on June 10.

7. (intransitive, card games) To fail to follow suit; playing a card of a different suit when having no card of the suit led.

Synonyms

• forsay
• forswear

Derived terms

• renounceable
• renouncement
• renouncer

Related terms

• announce
• denounce
• pronounce

Translations

give up

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 放棄／放弃 (zh) (fàngqì), 放弃 (zh) (fàngqì)

• Czech: vzdát se (cs)
• Dutch: opgeven (nl)
• Finnish: luovuttaa (fi), antaa periksi (fi)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Hungarian: lemond (hu), leköszön (hu), felad (hu)
• Norwegian: forsake (no), oppgi
• Romanian: lepăda (ro), renunța (ro)
• Russian: сдава́ться (ru) impf (sdavátʹsja), сда́ться (ru) pf (sdátʹsja)
• Serbo-Croatian: odustati (sh)

decline association with

• Azerbaijani: danmaq
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 斷絕／断绝 (duànjué)關係／关系, 断绝 (duànjué)关系 (duànjué guānxì)

• Esperanto: malkonfesi
• Estonian: lahti ütlema
• Finnish: kieltää (fi)
• Hungarian: kitagad (hu)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Norwegian: avsverge, fornekte
• Romanian: renunța (ro)
• Russian: отрека́ться (ru) impf (otrekátʹsja), отре́чься (ru) pf (otréčʹsja), отверга́ть (ru) impf (otvergátʹ), отве́ргнуть (ru) pf (otvérgnutʹ)
• Scottish Gaelic: àicheidh
• Serbo-Croatian: otkazati (sh)

abandon, forsake an action

• Finnish: hylätä (fi), luopua (fi)
• Hungarian: elhagy (hu), lemond (hu), felad (hu), megszüntet (hu), abbahagy (hu), felhagy (hu), megtagad (hu)
• Irish:

  Old Irish: do·beir druimm fri

• Norwegian: gi avkall, renonsere
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Romanian: abandona (ro)
• Russian: отступа́ться (ru) impf (otstupátʹsja), отступи́ться (ru) pf (otstupítʹsja)
• Serbo-Croatian: napustiti (sh), dići ruke

make renunciation

• Danish: give afkald
• Dutch: verzaken (aan) (4)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Finnish: mitätöidä (fi)

surrender a right or trust

• Finnish: luopua (fi)
• Hungarian: lemond (hu)
• Norwegian: frasi, gi avkall, renonsere
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Russian: отка́зываться (ru) impf (otkázyvatʹsja), отказа́ться (ru) pf (otkazátʹsja)
• Serbo-Croatian: odustati (sh), predati se (sh)

fail to follow suit for not having it

• Dutch: verzaken (nl)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Finnish: sakata (fi)

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Translations to be checked

• Esperanto: ^{(please verify)} rezigni
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}

References

• “renounce”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.