(v. t.) To renounce or reject with solemnity; to recant; to abandon forever; to reject; repudiate; as, to abjure errors.
(v. t.) To renounce upon oath; to forswear; to disavow; as, to abjure allegiance to a prince. To abjure the realm, is to swear to abandon it forever.
(v. i.) To renounce on oath.
Example Sentences:
(1) Surely the great strength of Shakespeare is precisely that he abjures cognitive or philosophical thinking in favour of a Wittgensteinian showing.
(2) The renewed debate on the nation’s constitutional future has led to some laughable abjurations from both sides.
(3) If modern Germany is more at ease abjuring the power and responsibilities of leadership in favour of a quiet, comfortable life, the frictions and misunderstandings making the European crisis worse are rooted in other psychological and cultural factors.
(4) It is the coital position favoured by informed liberals everywhere and abjured by all free Presbyterians for fear it may lead to dancing.
(5) If the talks succeed, Wilders will be in the enviable position of wielding power while abjuring responsibility.
(6) In it, he shows Galileo querying the existing cosmic order and being forced to abjure his theories under threat of torture.
(7) His decision to abjure the splendour of the apostolic palace in favour of the modest Casa Santa Marta guesthouse has offered proof of his personal commitment to a humbler church, while his tender embracing of Vinicio Riva, a man terribly disfigured by tumours , underlined his hands-on pastoral approach.
(8) Kafka was slim and underweight throughout his life and showed an ascetic attitude and abjuration of physical enjoyment and pleasure (fasting, vegetarianism, sexual abstinence, emphasis on physical fitness).
(9) In return for his solemnly abjuring all further claims on Israel, Israel would acquiesce in the emergence of a Palestine state.
(10) Pope Francis led the Jesuits through Argentina's dirty war and has consistently abjured the trappings of office while Welby, who began his professional life in the oil business, has worked as a peace negotiator in some of the most dangerous places in the world .
(11) Not only did he abjure the cardinal's residence in the Argentinian capital for a small apartment and reject a chauffeur-driven car to travel by bus, he also told hundreds of Argentinians not to waste their money on plane tickets to Rome to see him created a cardinal by John Paul II in 2001, urging them to give it instead to the poor.
(12) According to European officials briefed on today's talks in Moscow with President Nicolas Sarkozy of France, the Russians are insisting on an end to 15 years of Georgian troops being part of the peacekeeping contingent in breakaway South Ossetia and are demanding that Saakashvili sign a legally binding pledge abjuring the use of all armed force in relation to the two pro-Russian provinces of Abkhazia and South Ossetia.
(13) They have no possessive pronouns (not “you can borrow my handkerchief”, but “you can share the handkerchief I use”) and abjure possessive sexuality.
(14) The "newness" in each of these senses should abjure the capital "N" that has now run its course.
(15) Treatment of symptoms and improving the quality of life is imperative, yet many physicians abjure intervention, for reasons which are not entirely clear.
(16) Since 2001, BNP’s abjuring of any allegiance to such an ideal has been devastating.
(17) I'm still not vegetarian, but the older I get, the less defensible this state becomes – and not just because it's an implied term in my Guardian contract that I must abjure not only at least seven-eighths of any joy that comes my way in life but also any meat that isn't certified organic Norfolk roadkill or the cow in Douglas Adams' restaurant at the end of the universe .
(18) As to Havel's "idealism" – if that is what one must call serious ecological concern, an abjuring of narrow nationalism and materialism, and an eye on what the market's "hidden hand" is actually up to or capable of – he left us with some reason, in these dangerous early years of the new millennium, to think that the "realist" critique of such preoccupations was itself anachronistic.
(19) It abjures the nationalism and militarism that archaic phrase implies.
(20) Whenever I hear Iain Duncan Smith pontificating about the need for the unemployed to show initiative and find themselves jobs, I think of the fortunate frog urging the tadpoles to abjure welfare dependency.
Rescind
Definition:
(v. t.) To cut off; to abrogate; to annul.
(v. t.) Specifically, to vacate or make void, as an act, by the enacting authority or by superior authority; to repeal; as, to rescind a law, a resolution, or a vote; to rescind a decree or a judgment.
Example Sentences:
(1) The wives and girlfriends who were originally invited to accompany their playing partners on the World Cup tour have had their invitations formally rescinded.
(2) The ruling cannot be appealed, in effect rescinding the mother's rights to see her son.
(3) The BMA, however, will still be free to join ongoing talks over reforms after the government rescinded a talks ban for any unions that had rejected the outline proposals.
(4) If Obama rescinded the system altogether, it would make it significantly harder for Trump to build a Muslim registry.
(5) Connolly told a local paper , “Our position, if the termination for parental rights is granted, is that [she] would not have standing to obtain the abortion.” He’s arguing that Doe’s parental rights should be rescinded because she is facing charges of chemical endangerment of a child.
(6) More than 1,300 church members in Osorno, along with 30 priests from the diocese and 51 of Chile’s 120 members of parliament, sent letters to Francis in February urging him to rescind the appointment.
(7) Meanwhile environmental groups have said Feldman's ruling may have to be rescinded because of the possible conflict of interests.
(8) Both the refusal of Labour to rescind arms exports licenses issued to Indonesia granted under the Conservatives, and figures showing the number of arms exports licences issued with respect to Indonesia , have bought the sincerity of Labour's policy into question.
(9) The supreme court, led by an increasingly assertive and popular chief justice, has long demanded the government write to Switzerland to rescind a 2008 notification that it was no longer a party to corruption charges against President Asif Ali Zardari that Swiss officials had investigated.
(10) Asked if Australia would rescind an invite to Russian president Vladimir Putin to the G20 summit in Brisbane scheduled for November, Abbott responded: “I don’t want to pre-empt what happens down the track.” Flight MH17 was flying over Ukrainian airspace, 1000 feet above a no-fly zone when it is believed to have been shot down by a surface-to-air missile.
(11) The House Democratic leader, Nancy Pelosi, said: “There must be no sugarcoating the reality that a white nationalist has been named chief strategist for the Trump administration.” Departing US Senate minority leader Harry Reid on Tuesday called on the president to rescind Bannon’s appointment, which he said has only “deepened” the country’s divisions since the election.
(12) English rewrote Walsh's article, subbing it down to 2,200 words, and then persuaded his friend and colleague to rescind his resignation.
(13) Yet he defended the appointments that have now been rescinded, on the grounds that anyone working across government should properly be a civil servant.
(14) Will David Cameron have the courage to do what veteran Yorkshire Post columnist Bernard Dineen suggests today , namely to rescind my expulsion and give the Conservative party the alliance its history and policies deserve, with the mainstream EPP?
(15) That provoked uproar in the press room and was eventually rescinded.
(16) In Washington, Abadi insisted Iraqi fighters maintained the “upper hand psychologically” and that areas controlled by his government were increasing while those controlled by militants were rescinding.
(17) He rescinded Malawi's recognition of Taiwan and in 2007 established diplomatic links with Beijing.
(18) The fact they have rescinded this rule, which was introduced specifically to protect citizens from being screwed over, is insane,” she said.
(19) Yesterday, the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) rescinded the invitations of several journalists to attend a public briefing regarding a multilateral trade agreement under negotiation called the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPP).
(20) Describing the award as “morally reprehensible” and calling for it to be rescinded, the petition has gathered more than 500 staff signatures.