Abjure

He alone of all men must for an uncertain time abjure this field of endeavour, however great his interest.

Thus, Muldrow cannot help but abjure spiritual claims to universal enlightenment.

We were asked first to ‘absolutely and entirely renounce and abjure all allegiances and fidelity to any foreign prince, potentate, state, or sovereignty.’

I want to look closely at the first lines of the poem, in which Smith seems to abjure any claim of authority.

He eagerly concurs in the prince’s vow to abjure the throne and marriage.

After a long and wearisome trial he was condemned on June 22, 1633, solemnly to abjure his scientific creed on bended knees.

MPs were urged to abjure their Jacobite allegiance

his refusal to abjure the Catholic faith

The clear implication is that the Party abjured all forms of violence and acts of terror.

The response among younger women to this dilemma, at least in the feverish imagination of the media, has been an abjuration of femininity.

It is at this point when he abjures legal justice that he articulates the notion of a just revenge.

In the next few years Campanella found himself in trouble with the Venetian and Roman Inquisitions,abjuring his heresies in Rome in May 1594.

She becomes a devotee of women’s rights, abjures marriage, and founds a university.

An analysis of the institutional politics of the tax depreciation cases also lends support to an explanation why the judiciary abjured precise definition of ‘profits’ for income tax or dividend distribution purposes.

She went on a strict diet of milk products, even abjuring her beloved Mars chocolate bars, and dropped to her present weight of 90 pounds.

They have ceased to practise, and perhaps even to believe in their faith without abjuring it, like many if not most of us.

To recant is to withdraw or disavow a declared belief, as in renouncing a philosophy or abjuring fealty to a religion.

The nineteenth-century elites kept to their strict Protestant ways, abjuring the theater but supporting music.

The dramatic crisis stems from Galileo’s enforced abjuration in 1633 of his belief in a heliocentric universe.

Disappointed in this, they turned in 1650 to Charles II, who signed the Covenant, but then abjured it at his RESTORATION, condemning it as an unlawful oath.

He who votes against the rights of another whatever his religion, colour or sex, thereby abjures his own.

Who speaks these terrible abjurations , Kafka the man or Kafka the artist?

If only she could abjure art the way she abjured religion and write less self-consciously, the true artist would re-emerge from what is beginning to seem like indefinite hibernation.

The Inquisition had accepted Cardano’s private abjuration , extracting a promise from him never to teach or publish in the Papal States again.

He abjured an inclination to ‘tinker’ with the rate to take account of transient shifts in market conditions.

He was condemned in 1595 ‘on grave suspicion of heresy’ and forced to make a formal publicabjuration .