Abjure

Definition: Abjure

Abjure

Verb

1. Reject; "He retracted his earlier statements about his beliefs".

Date "abjure" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references)

Synonyms: Abjure

Synonyms: forswear (v), recant (v), resile (v), retract (v). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Resignation	Verb: resign; give up, throw up; lay down, throw up the cards, wash one's hands of, abjure, renounce, forego, disclaim, retract; deny.
Tergiversation	Verb: change one's mind, change one's intention, change one's purpose, change one's note; abjure, renounce; withdraw from; (relinquish); waver, vacillate; wheel round, turn round, veer round; turn a pirouette; go over from one side to another, pass from one side to another, change from one side to another, skip from one side to another; go to the rightabout; box the compass, shift one's ground, go upon another tack.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Abjure

English words defined with "abjure": Abjured, Abjuring ♦ To renounce probate ♦ Unswear. (references)

Non-English Usage: "Abjure" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses.

French (forswears).

Author	Quotation
Leonardo da Vinci	I have learned from an early age to abjure the use of meat, and the time will come when men such as I will look upon the murder of animals as they now look upon the murder of men.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

"Abjure" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 63.64% of the time. "Abjure" is used about 11 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Lexical Verb (infinitive)	63.64%	7	133,076
Lexical Verb (base form)	36.36%	4	175,879
Total	100.00%	11	N/A

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "abjure"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Afrikaan		kanselleer (abolish, abrogate, annul, cancel, remit), afsweer (abnegate, forswear, renounce, swear, swear off). (various references)

Albanian		abrogoj (abolish, abrogate, annul, cancel, remit), heq dorë me betim. (various references)

Arabic		‏تنكر (deny, deny oneself, disavow, disclaim, disguise, disguise oneself, disown, guy, mask, masquerade, mockery, renounce, repudiate, travesty). (various references)

Bulgarian		отричам се от (deny, disavow, disown, renounce, repudiate). (various references)

Chinese		公然弃决 (Abjured, Abjuring). (various references)

Czech		zříci se (disclaim, give up, relinquish, renounce, repudiate, waive), odpřisáhnout. (various references)

Danish		aflyse (abolish, abrogate, annul, cancel, remit), sende afbud (abolish, abrogate, annul, cancel, countermand, remit). (various references)

Dutch		afzweren (abnegate, forswear, renounce, swear off). (various references)

Esperanto		abĵuri (abnegate), repreni, nuligi (abolish, abrogate, annul, cancel, remit), forlasi ĵure (forswear, renounce, swear off). (various references)

Faeroese		taka aftur (abolish, abrogate, annul, cancel, draw back, remit, withdraw), gera til einkis (abolish, abrogate, annul, cancel, remit), fáa aftur (retrieve). (various references)

French		abjurer (abnegate). (various references)

Frisian		annulearje (abolish, abrogate, annul, cancel, remit), skrasse (abolish, abrogate, annul, cancel, remit), ôfswarre (forswear, renounce, swear off), ôfsizze (abolish, abrogate, annul, cancel, countermand, remit). (various references)

German		abschwören (abjuration, forswear, renounce, repudiate), abschwörte. (various references)

Greek		απαρνούμαι (abdicate, abnegate, disclaim, disown, renounce, repudiate), αποκηρύσσω (abnegate, disavow, disown, recant, renounce, repudiate). (various references)

Hawaiian		abrogoj (abolish, abrogate, annul, cancel, remit). (various references)

Hebrew		לחזור משבועתו, ל�"תכחש (disavow, recant, renege, renounce, repudiate, retract). (various references)

Hungarian		megsemmisít (abolish, abrogate, annihilate, annul, avoid, cancel, efface, elide, nullify, remit, repeal, to annihilate, to annul, to cancel, to destroy, to disfigure, to eliminate, to eradicate, to exterminate, to give sy a trouncing, to nullify, to overwhelm, to put down, to put to rout, to repeal, to reverse, to rout, to set aside, to smite hip and thigh), esküvel tagad (forswear, -swore, -sworn, to forswear). (various references)

Icelandic		sverja fyrir (abnegate). (various references)

Indonesian		mengharamkan (abstain from, forbid, prohibit, proscribe), bersumpah (pledge, swear). (various references)

Italian		annullare (abate, abolish, abrogate, annul, avoid, cancel, counter, countermand, delete, dissolve, nullify, override, overrule, quash, remit, rescind, scrub, set aside, tear up, to abrogate), abiurare (forswear, recant). (various references)

Malay		membatalkan (abolish, abrogate, annul, cancel, remit), batalkan (abolish, abrogate, annul, cancel, remit). (various references)

Papiamen		anulá (abolish, abrogate, annul, cancel, remit), kanselá (abolish, abrogate, annul, cancel, remit). (various references)

Pig Latin		abjureay.(various references)

Polish		odebrać. (various references)

Portuguese		renunciar (abandon, abdicate, abnegate, depart, desist, disclaim, foregoing, fossa, give up, renounce, resign, surrender, waive). (various references)

Romanian		anula (abate, abolish, abrogate, annul, avoid, call off, cancel, defeat, disaffirm, disannul, discharge, dissolve, negate, negative, nullify, overrule, quash, recall, remit, render null, repeal, rescind, reverse, undo, vacate, vitiate), abroga (abate, abolish, abrogate, annul, cancel, nullify, remit, repeal, rescind, revoke), abjura (renounce), se lepãda (abandon, abdicate, forsake, forswear, renounce), renega (abnegate, deny, disclaim, disown, renounce), nega (challenge, deny, disaffirm, disavow, gainsay, impugn, negate, negative, repudiate, traverse). (various references)

Russian		отрекаться (abdicate, disclaim, disown, forswear, recant, renege, renounce, repudiate). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		odustati (backtrack, baulk, drop, drop out, give up, lay off, pass up, quit, recede, remise, scratch, withdraw), odreći se (abdicate, abnegate, back down, deny, disclaim, forgo, forwent, relinquish, remise, renounce, sign away, surrender, waive, withdraw). (various references)

Spanish		abjurar (abjurer, abnegate, forswear, renounce, swear off), renunciar (back out, disclaim, pass up, quitclaim, renounce, resign, revoke, throw off, throw up, trade off), contramandar (abolish, abrogate, annul, cancel, countermand, remit), anular (abolish, abrogate, annul, annular, annulus, avoid, cancel, countermand, defeat, destroy, discontinue, invalidate, negate, negative, nullify, override, overrule, overturn, quash, remit, repudiate, rescind, revoke, ring finger, scrub, set aside, to abrogate, to override, undo, void, write off). (various references)

Swedish		avsvärja (forswear). (various references)

Turkish		yeminle vazgeçmek, tövbe etmek (forswear, repent, swear off, swear to give up, vow not to do it again), feshetmek (abolish, abrogate, annihilate, annul, call off, cancel, countermand, dissolve, do away with, outlaw, quash, remit, rescind, set aside, vacate, wash out), dönmek (apostatize, bear, budge from, call back, change one's mind, chop about, chop round, circle, come back, come home, deflect, face, front, get round, go back, go back on, gyrate, pivot, put about, recall, recant, reel, regress, renege, repass, return, return to, revert, revolve, rotate, round, screw, sheer from, slew, slue, spin, swallow, swerve, swim, swing, switch, switch to, tumble, turn, turn back, turn one's coat, turn over, turn round, turn up, twist, veer, veer round, wheel, wheel about, wheel around, whirl), íptal etmek (abolish, abrogate, annul, cancel, remit). (various references)

Ukranian		відступатися (apostatize, fall away, off), відмовлятися (abdicate, abnegate, back down, backtrack, cast off, discard, forgo, forsake, forswear, jettison, lay aside, lay down, nill, part with, pass up, pretext, recede, refuse, relinquish, renounce, repeal, retract, throw aside, throw out, throw over, waive, withdraw), зрікатися (abdicate, abnegate, deny, disclaim, forswear, recant, renege, renegue, renounce, repudiate, resign). (various references)

Welsh		ymwrthod a+, gwadu ar lw. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	abiurare, abjurare, abrenuntiare. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "abjure": abjured, abjurer, abjurers, abjures. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Abjure" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: abdure, abhere, abjur, abture, abur, abura, ajore, ajur, ajure, Ajuria, ajute, Albourne, avjure, Baburen, majeure, objure. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-b-e-j-r-u"
	-2 letters: bare, bear, beau, brae, bura, juba, jube, jura, rube, urea.
	-3 letters: arb, are, bar, bra, bur, ear, eau, era, jab, jar, jeu, raj, reb, rub, rue, urb.
	-4 letters: ab, ae, ar, ba, be, er, re.
	Words containing the letters "a-b-e-j-r-u"
	+1 letter: abjured, abjurer, abjures.
	+2 letters: abjurers.
	+3 letters: objurgate.
	+4 letters: lumberjack, objurgated, objurgates.
	+5 letters: lumberjacks.
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