abjure

== English == === Etymology === From Late Middle English abjuren (“to give up (something); to recant or renounce (something) under oath”), from Anglo-Norman abjurer, Middle French abiurer, abjurer, and Old French abjurer (“to reject or renounce (something) on oath”) (modern French abjurer), and from their etymon Latin abiūrāre, the present active infinitive of abiūrō (“to deny on oath, recant, renounce, repudiate, abjure”), from ab- (prefix meaning ‘away from, from’) + iūro (“to take an oath, swear, vow”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₂yew- (“(adjective) right; straight; upright; (noun) justice; law; right”). === Pronunciation === (Received Pronunciation) (without the pour–poor merger) IPA(key): /əbˈd͡ʒʊə(ɹ)/ (without the pour–poor merger) IPA(key): /əbˈd͡ʒɔː(ɹ)/ (General American) IPA(key): /æbˈd͡ʒʊ(ə)ɹ/, /əb-/ Rhymes: -ʊə(ɹ) Hyphenation: ab‧jure === Verb === abjure (third-person singular simple present abjures, present participle abjuring, simple past and past participle abjured) (formal) (transitive) To solemnly reject (someone or something); to abandon (someone or something) forever; to disavow, to disclaim, to repudiate. [from 15th c.] Synonyms: renounce; see also Thesaurus:repudiate (historical) To renounce (something) upon oath; to forswear; specifically, to recant or retract (a heresy or some other opinion); to withdraw. [from 15th c.] Synonyms: disavow, renounce; see also Thesaurus:recant (historical) To cause (someone) to recant or retract (a heresy or some other opinion). [from 15th c.] (chiefly law, historical) Especially in abjure the realm: to swear an oath to leave (a place) forever. (obsolete, rare) To cause or compel (someone) to leave a place forever; to banish. (intransitive) To solemnly reject; to abandon forever. (historical) To recant or retract a heresy on oath. (chiefly law, historical) To swear an oath to leave a place forever. ==== Usage notes ==== Not to be confused with adjure. ==== Conjugation ==== ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Related terms ==== abjuration adjure ==== Translations ==== === References === === Further reading === abjuration on Wikipedia.Wikipedia Elliott K. Dobbie, C. William Dunmore, Robert K. Barnhart, et al. (editors), Chambers Dictionary of Etymology (Chambers Harrap Publishers Ltd, 2004 [1998], →ISBN), page 3 Lesley Brown, editor-in-chief, William R. Trumble and Angus Stevenson, editors (2002), “abjure”, in The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary on Historical Principles, 5th edition, Oxford; New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 5. === Anagrams === Juarbe == French == === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ab.ʒyʁ/ === Verb === abjure inflection of abjurer: first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive second-person singular imperative == Portuguese == === Verb === abjure inflection of abjurar: first/third-person singular present subjunctive third-person singular imperative == Romanian == === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /abˈʒure/ Rhymes: -ure Hyphenation: ab‧jú‧re === Verb === abjure third-person singular/plural present subjunctive of abjura == Spanish == === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /abˈxuɾe/ [aβ̞ˈxu.ɾe] Rhymes: -uɾe Syllabification: ab‧ju‧re === Verb === abjure inflection of abjurar: first/third-person singular present subjunctive third-person singular imperative