What's the difference between quit and renounce?

Quit


Definition:

  • (n.) Any one of numerous species of small passerine birds native of tropical America. See Banana quit, under Banana, and Guitguit.
  • (v.) Released from obligation, charge, penalty, etc.; free; clear; absolved; acquitted.
  • (imp. & p. p.) of Quit
  • (a.) To set at rest; to free, as from anything harmful or oppressive; to relieve; to clear; to liberate.
  • (a.) To release from obligation, accusation, penalty, or the like; to absolve; to acquit.
  • (a.) To discharge, as an obligation or duty; to meet and satisfy, as a claim or debt; to make payment for or of; to requite; to repay.
  • (a.) To meet the claims upon, or expectations entertained of; to conduct; to acquit; -- used reflexively.
  • (a.) To carry through; to go through to the end.
  • (a.) To have done with; to cease from; to stop; hence, to depart from; to leave; to forsake; as, to quit work; to quit the place; to quit jesting.
  • (v. i.) To away; to depart; to stop doing a thing; to cease.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It is quite interesting to analyse which gene of the virus determines the characteristics of the virus.
  • (2) The most successful dyes were phenocyanin TC, gallein, fluorone black, alizarin cyanin BB and alizarin blue S. Celestin blue B with an iron mordant is quite successful if properly handled to prevent gelling of solutions.
  • (3) Mike Ashley told Lee Charnley that maybe he could talk with me last week but I said: ‘Listen, we cannot say too much so I think it’s better if we wait.’ The message Mike Ashley is sending is quite positive, but it was better to talk after we play Tottenham.” Benítez will ask Ashley for written assurances over his transfer budget, control of transfers and other spheres of club autonomy, but can also reassure the owner that the prospect of managing in the second tier holds few fears for him.
  • (4) Certainly, Saunders did not land a single blow that threatened to stop his opponent, although he took quite a few himself that threatened his titles in the final few rounds.
  • (5) Yesterday's flight may not quite have been one small step for man, but the hyperbole and the sense of history weighed heavily on those involved.
  • (6) In the dark the 6-azidoflavoproteins are quite stable, except for L-lactate oxidase, where spontaneous conversion to the 6-amino-FMN enzyme occurs slowly at pH 7.
  • (7) I did not - do not - quite understand how some are able to contemplate his anti-semitism with indifference.
  • (8) In spite of the presence of scar tissue following rhytidectomy, this procedure has been quite successful because of the rich blood supply in that area.
  • (9) Dialyzed crude enzyme extracts from yeast cells were found to destroy diacetyl in a manner quite similar to that of diacetyl reductase from Aerobacter aerogenes, and both the bacterial and the yeast extracts were stimulated significantly by the addition of reduced nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NADH).
  • (10) The authors present a quite unused technique that helps to simplify the cavity preparation in Operative Dentistry.
  • (11) Interexaminer reliability studies indicate that a standard method of motion palpation is quite feasible and accurate.
  • (12) Our findings: (1) both forms, LC1 and LC3, migrate in the two species with rather similar electrophoretic constants (both in terms of pI and Mr); (2) the LC2 forms of rabbit and humans exhibit the same Mr but quite different pI values, the rabbit forms being more acidic; (3) the chain LC2Sb is resolved into two spots in both rabbit and humans.
  • (13) The tunes weren't quite as easy and lush as they had been, and hints of dissonance crept in.
  • (14) The decision of the editors to solicit a review for the Medical Progress series of this journal devoted to current concepts of the renal handling of salt and water is sound in that this important topic in kidney physiology has recently been the object of a number of new, exciting and, in some instances, quite unexpected insights into the mechanisms governing sodium excretion.
  • (15) In a clear water reservoir built in ready construction after a working-period of five months quite a lot of slime could be found on the expansion joint filled with tightening compound on the base of Thiokol.
  • (16) Four patients developed an hypertensive crisis with quite elevated levels of aldosterone, cortisol and plasma renin activity.
  • (17) Stage REM frequently appeared within 10 min of stage 1 onset and the normal sequence of stages REM and 4 were altered, demonstrating that the organization of sleep within a nap is quite different from that in monophasic nocturnal sleep.
  • (18) I think we are still trying to understand all that and I think that fits under the broader topic of social licence and what bringing in automation to an area does to that region as a whole, which we don’t quite know yet.” Could carbon farming be the answer for a 'clapped-out' Australia?
  • (19) Asked whether the 2022 bid should be reopened in the wake of the allegations in the Sunday Times, Cameron said: "There is an inquiry under way, quite rightly, into what happened in terms of the World Cup bid for 2022.
  • (20) We believe that this unit is quite safe for clinical use and that it will become a new strong support for non-blood open heart surgery.

Renounce


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To declare against; to reject or decline formally; to refuse to own or acknowledge as belonging to one; to disclaim; as, to renounce a title to land or to a throne.
  • (v. t.) To cast off or reject deliberately; to disown; to dismiss; to forswear.
  • (v. t.) To disclaim having a card of (the suit led) by playing a card of another suit.
  • (v. i.) To make renunciation.
  • (v. i.) To decline formally, as an executor or a person entitled to letters of administration, to take out probate or letters.
  • (n.) Act of renouncing.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It was a waspish summary in which he noted that, while Pope Francis "may have renounced his own infallibility", Margaret Thatcher never did.
  • (2) He renounced his Australian citizenship , returned his passport and Medicare card to the Australian Commonwealth, and sent his driver’s licence back to the chief minister of the Australian Capital Territory, where he then lived.
  • (3) Despite having taken vows renouncing concern for physical pain or comfort, respondents differed markedly in their attitudes toward pain and their rationale for utilizing medical treatment.
  • (4) The man who renounced Australia Read more It was “not so much a defence to the charges [but] a negotiating point or olive branch” held out to the commonwealth to instigate discussion towards a treaty and formal consent for its occupation of the land, he said.
  • (5) After World War II, he renounced his divinity and became the symbol of both the state and the unity of the people.
  • (6) The strategic alliance between the stances is continuing and will continue.” Responding to the remarks in the Atlantic late on Tuesday night, Israel’s far-right economics minister, Naftali Bennett, used his Facebook page to call for Washington to renounce the comments: “If what was written [in The Atlantic] is true, then it appears the current administration plans to throw Israel under the bus.
  • (7) Payouts require claimants to renounce their right to sue the church and state authorities.
  • (8) Blaming strict gender segregation, the author points out that since desire is natural to humankind, its suppression is bound to make it resurface in a different guise: "For example, monks and those who renounce worldly pleasures quite often tend to be fat, with big bellies.
  • (9) Later, prisoners suffered even worse mistreatment in an attempt to force them to renounce their allegiance to the insurgency and to obey commands.
  • (10) In 1963, when Tony Benn won his fight to renounce his inherited peerage, he was rapidly followed by Quintin Hogg and Alec Douglas-Home, who were prominent in the Lords but understood they needed to face the people to get to the very top, as Douglas-Home went on to do.
  • (11) Daniel Radcliffe: renounced his support for Lib Dems.
  • (12) "I was then offered £5,000 to renounce the right of my wife to succeed me in the tenancy, which I did accept.
  • (13) If a Muslim candidate did not renounce such aspects of his or her faith, Carson said, “Why in fact would you take that chance?” Referring to criticism of his remark last weekend to NBC that he “would not advocate” a Muslim becoming president, Carson said: “I said anybody, doesn’t matter what their religious background, if they accept American values and principles and are willing to subjugate their religious beliefs to our constitution, I have no problem with them.” Article VI of the US constitution states: “No religious Test shall ever be required as a Qualification to any Office or public Trust under the United States.” The first amendment to the constitution says: “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof …” Carson is a member of the Seventh Day Adventist Church.
  • (14) 48.5% of respondents share the misperception that transmission from mother to fetus always happens, and 70% think that women who are HIV carriers should renounce pregnancy: willingness to support mandatory screening for pregnant women is significantly higher among individuals who share these two beliefs.
  • (15) Abbas is under considerable pressure from Israel, the US and Britain in particular to renounce the option for the Palestinian Authority to accede to the ICC.
  • (16) Reforms saw the MP Zac Goldsmith and peer Swraj Paul renounce their non-dom status to hold on to their seats.
  • (17) There is a hint he will sign up with Pasok, but he has already told the two main parties they must renounce all their previous negotiations in Brussels before he will sit down with them.
  • (18) March 1995 The preacher issues a fatwa saying it is justified to both kill Muslims who renounce their faith and kill their families.
  • (19) I wouldn’t hesitate in renouncing my Britishness , it doesn’t bother me in the slightest.
  • (20) Experiences from history and presence make it clear that the sensitiveness for these problems must be a never renounced and a constant concern of all anthropologists and human genetists.