renounce

名词 n. 动词 v.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. An act of renouncing.
动词 v.
  1. To give up, resign, surrender. transitive
    — to renounce a title to land or to a throne
  2. To cast off, repudiate. transitive
    — This world I do renounce, and in your sights Shake patiently my great affliction off.
  3. To decline further association with someone or something, disown. transitive
  4. To abandon, forsake, discontinue (an action, habit, intention, etc), sometimes by open declaration. transitive
    — […] some families renounced the use of a certain praenomen which had been disgraced by one of their name […]
  5. To make a renunciation of something. intransitive
    — He of my sons who fails to make it good, / By one rebellious act renounces to my blood.
  6. To surrender formally some right or trust. intransitive
    — Dryden died without a will, and his widow having renounced, his son Charles administered on June 10.
  7. To fail to follow suit; playing a card of a different suit when having no card of the suit led. intransitive

词形变化

renounces plural renounces present,singular,third-person renouncing participle,present renounced participle,past renounced past

词源

词源 1
From Old French renoncier (French renoncer), from Latin renūntiō. Doublet of renunciate.
词源 2
From Old French renoncier (French renoncer), from Latin renūntiō. Doublet of renunciate.
0 次浏览 数据来源: Wiktionary