abjure

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Thus many find it fashionable to abjure party labels, insisting they vote “for the man” or “the woman,” as the case may be, independent of any partisan considerations.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 8, 2022

By 1907, when Sargent was 51, he’d had enough: “No more paughtraits,” he wrote in a now-famous note, “I abhor and abjure them and hope never to do another especially of the Upper Classe.”

From Washington Post • Mar. 5, 2020

Johnson managed to abjure his past and, on the march toward an exceptionally successful career, leave it behind.

From The New Yorker • Dec. 12, 2018

Writing in The New York Times in 1965, Howard Taubman concluded that while “not a great musical,” the show “has the courage to abjure garishness and stridency.”

From New York Times • May 10, 2015

On July 3rd, 1442, in the parish church of Wellingborough, the Bishop caused him to swear upon the Holy Book that he would abjure the priory and all communication with Elizabeth.

From Medieval English Nunneries c. 1275 to 1535 by Power, Eileen