v. Obs. [f. L. ab off, away + RENOUNCE, after med.L. abrenunciā-re to repudiate; f. ab away, off + renuntiā-re to unsay, retract; f. re back + nuntiā-re often corrupted to nunciā-re to tell.] To renounce, repudiate; to contradict.

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1537.  Latimer, Serm. before Convoc., 6. Many of these … will no better acknowledge and recognise theyr parentes … but abrenounce and cast them of.

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1553–87.  Foxe, A. & M. (1596), 159/1. Commanding all the clergie … either to abrenounce their wiues, or their livings.

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1566.  Knox, Hist. Ref. Scotl., Wks. 1846, I. 300. Many began opinly to abrenunce thare ald idolatrie.

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1656.  J. Trapp, Exp. Matt. xvi. 24 (1868), 202/1. Let him deny himself … let him abrenounce himself flatly.

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