abjure
Example Sentences
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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
Constitutionally, the role of the monarch is to keep his or her mouth shut, to abjure what Elizabeth, in “The Queen,” calls “the sheer joy of being partial.”
From New York Times • Nov. 6, 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
All the pastors who refused to abjure their faith were compelled to leave the country within fifteen days.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 8 "Hudson River" to "Hurstmonceaux" by Various
