Definitions for renounce

renounce re·nounce

Spelling: [ri-nouns]
IPA: /rɪˈnaʊns/

Renounce is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 135 anagrams from letters in renounce (ceennoru).

Definitions for renounce

noun

  1. Cards. an act or instance of renouncing.

verb (used with object)

  1. to give up or put aside voluntarily:
  2. to give up by formal declaration:
  3. to repudiate; disown:

verb (used without object)

  1. Cards. to play a card of a different suit from that led. to abandon or give up a suit led. to fail to follow the suit led.

Origin of renounce

1325-75; Middle English renouncen Middle French renoncer Latin renūntiāre to bring back word, disclaim, equivalent to re- re- + nūntiāre to announce, derivative of nūnt

Examples for renounce

She was to renounce her father and take the name of Bohun———.

He renounced his country; but could not renounce his character.

Kuzenkov is the only humane Communist Party member in the book, which is another way of saying he must renounce the Party.

Context: Rumored to be the last words of the French enlightenment writer, when a priest asked him to renounce Satan.

If people could only renounce their hateful ideas, they could learn to love one another.

Now my father is dead, I will have nothing to do with the world, and will renounce it for ever.

Attend carefully then to this necessary deity, and renounce the other.

Unlike her brother, however, Laura does not renounce her love, but determines to hide it from view.

Louis looked at me with a startled air, but recovering himself said kindly, “Of course I renounce the—what is it I must renounce?”

Will you undertake to make her renounce the earl, who, I believe, is the devil incarnate?

Word Value for renounce
Scrable

10

Words with friends

14

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