abrenounce

English edit

Etymology edit

Learned borrowing from Medieval Latin abrenunciare, from Latin ab- (“from”) + renuntio (“revoke”).^[1]

Pronunciation edit

(US) IPA^(key): /ˌæbɹiˈnaʊnts/
Audio (Southern England) (file)

Verb edit

abrenounce (third-person singular simple present abrenounces, present participle abrenouncing, simple past and past participle abrenounced)

(transitive, obsolete) To renounce; to contradict. [mid 16th – mid 17th c.]
- 1536 June 16 (Gregorian calendar), Hugh Latimer, “Sermon II. Master Latimer’s Discourse on the Same Day in the Afternoon [Preached to the Convocation of the Clergy, before the Parliament Began, the Sixth Day of June, the Twenty Eighth Year of the Reign of the Late King Henry VIII].”, in The Sermons of the Right Reverend Father in God, Master Hugh Latimer, Bishop of Worcester. […], volume I, London: […] J. Scott, […], published 1758, →OCLC, page 24:
  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.
  The spelling has been modernized.

References edit

^ Lesley Brown, editor-in-chief, William R. Trumble and Angus Stevenson, editors (2002), “abrenounce”, in The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary on Historical Principles, 5th edition, Oxford, New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 8.

[1] Lesley Brown, editor-in-chief, William R. Trumble and Angus Stevenson, editors (2002), “abrenounce”, in The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary on Historical Principles, 5th edition, Oxford, New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 8.

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