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
People who are otherwise deemed sceptical abjure their reason and believe in miracles.
From The Guardian • Apr. 10, 2019
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
Press notes indicate some serial business ahead, putting extra pressure on Astral's decision whether to remain mortal and forever abjure the company of fairies, or to get back to where she once belonged.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 8, 2016
Bishops and inquisitors were ordered to perform their office diligently in tracking all who entertained it, and seeing that they were duly punished unless they would freely abjure.
From A History of The Inquisition of The Middle Ages; volume II by Lea, Henry Charles
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