abjure
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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
Constitutionally, the role of the monarch is to keep his or her mouth shut, to abjure what Elizabeth, in “The Queen,” calls “the sheer joy of being partial.”
From New York Times • Nov. 6, 2019
People who are otherwise deemed sceptical abjure their reason and believe in miracles.
From The Guardian • Apr. 10, 2019
Gottlieb tells the story of how James Boswell, the biographer of Samuel Johnson, visited Hume on his deathbed, hoping to find that at the last minute the philosopher would abjure his doubts and embrace Christianity.
From The New Yorker • Aug. 29, 2016
All the pastors who refused to abjure their faith were compelled to leave the country within fifteen days.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 8 "Hudson River" to "Hurstmonceaux" by Various
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