abjure

1 But we should not want our spouses to abjure the companionship of others once we are no longer available to them.

2 On May 22, Mushtaq raised his right hand and pledged to “absolutely and entirely renounce and abjure all allegiance and fidelity to any foreign prince, potentate, state or sovereignty…” in the auditorium in Seattle.

3 People who are otherwise deemed sceptical abjure their reason and believe in miracles.

4 As he examines his examples of essayism, and steadily reveals more of himself, so his own work joins those cherished selections, enacting in sentence after fine sentence the theory it modestly abjured.

5 The new format involves a dubious new wardrobe, with O’Brien abjuring suit coats in favor of, like, a trucker jacket, while nonetheless clipping a slender tie to a dark shirt.

6 This description annoys some of the serious players who work and train for months, who develop rare skills, and who abjure alcohol during the competition.

7 Yet the lean frame doesn’t quite fit with his protégé’s scornful comment that, in agreeing to publicly abjure the very ideas he sought to champion, Galileo “saved his big gut.”

8 Some of Mr. Abduraimov’s peers might see Liszt’s “Mephisto Waltz” as a chance to pose, but he abjured, calm and confident enough not to add unnecessary spark to an already heated work.

9 If there was an abiding theme across X’s work and life, it was the attempt to subvert a fixed self, choosing to cycle through artistic personas and abjure her personal history.

10 Many U.N. specialized and technical agencies do important work, adhere to their mandates and abjure international politics.

11 He vowed that he would “abjure, curse and detest” his findings.

12 Are democratic socialists willing to abjure ideological purity and accept a politics that is effective, not merely expressive?

13 It’s as though Ms. Moore had self-consciously decided to abjure her more expressionistic literary gifts and write a straight-ahead historical primer, pruned of unnecessary description, personal digressions and most subjective assessments.

14 They were compelled to abjure their faith.

他们被迫发誓放弃自己的信仰。

15 That would be a more profitable line of questioning, because a play like “The Sound Inside,” abjuring sentimentality in its very bones, could never be this affecting without touching on something big.

16 Johnson managed to abjure his past and, on the march toward an exceptionally successful career, leave it behind.

17 I was happy to just abjure other people, get all my extramarital fellowship needs from the memory of the kind of thing they said.

18 As in his Tony-winning revival of “The Color Purple,” he abjures almost all specific signs of setting.

19 But this seems to abjure the hard-nosed realism — “Must war and profit be what drive both civilizations…and the investigation of other worlds? History…makes it hard to answer no”—that they otherwise express.

20 In the end, de Hales agreed to abjure the realm, which meant walking, barefoot, to the port of Chester, a hundred and thirty miles away, holding a wooden cross and wearing sackcloth, and taking a ship across the Irish Sea, never to return.

1 正式放弃

abdicate

2 否认

negative contradictory no denial disclaimer traverse contradiction nay negation contradict deny negate confound disclaim repudiate disavow disown gainsay disaffirm

3 节制

temperate abstinent reserve restraint moderation abstinence sobriety temperance forbearance continence abstention reticence abstain forbear moderate stint

4 撤回

retraction recantation recede backtrack retrocede take retract recant countermand

5 弃绝

renunciative abandon forgo forswear renunciate

6 发誓戒除

forswear

7 声明放弃

renounce

8 誓绝

forswear

9 公开放弃

abjuration

10 戒除

refrain drop wean slough fall out of

11 避免

avoidance dodge refrain help avoid fly escape avert eschew sidestep burke turn aside illude decline spare obviate expiate evite win by get ahead of