abjure

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

To renounce upon oath; to forswear; to disavow; as, to abjure allegiance to a prince.

From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary by Noah Webster

India abjures formal alliances, which it sees as constraints on its independence.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 1, 2026

Perhaps what ultimately tips “Skeleton Crew” in the other direction is the way it abjures cynicism in favor of connection.

From New York Times ● Jan. 26, 2022

Or, make that drama avoidance; this is a novel that abjures not just plot twists but plot advances.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 10, 2014

He abjures his cow pies for sunblush tomato and goat's cheese baguettes and begins to use a Remington Philishave.

From The Guardian ● Aug. 18, 2012

He forsakes his ancestral halls, abjures Parliament, and enlists in the cavalry of the Hippodrome.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol. 60, No. 373, November 1846 by Various

Tunisia's army has historically abjured a political role and Saied has not yet tested the security forces by trying to mobilise them for a major crackdown on dissent.

From Reuters ● Dec. 18, 2022

He abjured the hunt for home runs, but his on-base percentage was high.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 8, 2021

His three Republican successors did not follow suit, Calvin Coolidge especially abjured such monarchical power.

From Fox News ● Jan. 10, 2019

LBJ might have been a man of elastic morality, but he pretty much kept to his ranch, wrote the required memoir and abjured buck-raking.

From Washington Post ● Jun. 1, 2015

In a sober ceremony, the Mexica abjured their old religion and embraced Christianity.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann

As for abjuring Eurocentricity, the author himself refers to the “four allies plus China” that received permanent Security Council seats in 1945.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 9, 2026

Nor, in abjuring technical tricks, does he give us anything worth paying attention to between scenes unless you like watching an upright piano get wheeled around.

From New York Times ● Sep. 28, 2017

Later Nate cites an additional, darker reason for abjuring female companionship: “You care a damn about a woman then you keep her as far away from this life as possible.”

From Washington Post ● Apr. 11, 2017

And abjuring graduate school does not mean you must end your romance with literature—in fact the opposite could be true.

From Slate ● Dec. 27, 2012

It a subscribing to a lie, in abjuring a declaration, in so far as it did declare a thing, which it did not, if that hold.

From A Hind Let Loose Or, An Historical Representation of the Testimonies of the Church of Scotland for the Interest of Christ. With the True State Thereof in All Its Periods by Alexander Shields