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Webster 1913 Edition


Abrenounce

Abˊre-nounce′

,
Verb.
T.
[L.
abrenuntiare
;
ab
+
renuntiare
. See
Renounce
.]
To renounce.
[Obs.]
“They abrenounce and cast them off.”
Latimer.

Definition 2024


abrenounce

abrenounce

English

Verb

abrenounce (third-person singular simple present abrenounces, present participle abrenouncing, simple past and past participle abrenounced)

  1. (transitive, obsolete) To renounce; to contradict. [Attested from the mid 16th century until the mid 17th century.][1]
    • (Can we date this quote?), Latimer, (Please provide the title of the work):
      They abrenounce and cast them off.

References

  1. 1 2 Lesley Brown (editor), The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary, 5th edition (Oxford University Press, 2003 [1933], ISBN 978-0-19-860575-7), page 8