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

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

"This rough magic, I here abjure … And deeper than did ever plummet sound, I'll drown my book."

From The Guardian • Nov. 12, 2012

In words a man may pretend to abjure their empire: but in reality he will remain subject to it all the while.

From The Contemporary Review, Volume 36, November 1879 by Various