renounce

Etymology

From Old French renoncier (French renoncer), from Latin renuntiare.

noun

1. (card games) An act of renouncing.

verb

1. (transitive) To give up, resign, surrender.
   to renounce a title to land or to a throne
   It is terrible to think of the power of the world even in a redeemed soul. Here was a maid who had drunk of the well of grace and tasted of God's mercies, and yet there were moments when she was ready to renounce her hope. 1902, John Buchan, The Outgoing of the Tide
2. (transitive) To cast off, repudiate.
3. (transitive) To decline further association with someone or something, disown.
4. (transitive) To abandon, forsake, discontinue (an action, habit, intention, etc), sometimes by open declaration.
   His son Sidhartha had renounced material life and gone forth in search of enlightment. He received enlightment under a Bodhi tree at Gaya and became Buddha. Ashoka visited Gaya along with Upagupta and had darshan of Sambodhi. 18 May 2012, Sri B. G. Ramesh, translated by Sri M. N. Suresh Kumar, Ashoka, Bangalore: Sapna Book House (P) Ltd., page 14
   Time is running out, so I renounce a spin on a Class 387 for a fast run to Paddington on another Class 800 - a shame as the weather was perfect for pictures. Even so, it's enjoyable - boy, can those trains shift under the wires. December 2 2020, Paul Bigland, “My weirdest and wackiest Rover yet”, in Rail, page 68
5. (intransitive) To make a renunciation of something.
6. (intransitive) To surrender formally some right or trust.
   Dryden died without a will, and his widow having renounced, his son Charles administered on June 10. 1870, William Dougal Christie, Memoir of John Dryden
7. (intransitive, card games) To fail to follow suit; playing a card of a different suit when having no card of the suit led.