词为我用 - abjure

词汇释义

abjure  TEM8  GRE

UK  /əbˈdʒʊər/ US  /əbˈdʒʊr/

verb, If you abjure something such as a belief or way of life, you state publicly that you will give it up or that you reject it.发誓弃绝，郑重声明放弃(信仰、生活方式等)

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外刊例句

1. People who are otherwise deemed sceptical abjure their reason and believe in miracles.(The Guardian)

2. But there’s no requirement of a speech of any kind, and from Thomas Jefferson through William Taft, presidents abjured.(Fox News)

3. His three Republican successors did not follow suit, Calvin Coolidge especially abjured such monarchical power.(Fox News)

4. Are democratic socialists willing to abjure ideological purity and accept a politics that is effective, not merely expressive?(Washington Post)

5. Many U.N. specialized and technical agencies do important work, adhere to their mandates and abjure international politics.(Wall Street Journal)

6. It's the usual "liberation theology" drivel, whereby everybody except the inhabitants of the democratic West is supposed to abjure violence.(Slate)

7. In the United States, the oath administered to naturalized citizens requires that they “entirely renounce and abjure all allegiance and fidelity to any foreign prince, potentate, state or sovereignty.”(New York Times)

8. 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.(Washington Times)

9. Most of the world’s Muslims are not so devout that they completely abjure conventional finance: even in Saudi Arabia, the assets of Islamic banks account for barely half of all banking assets.(TheEconomist)

10. In a governance report issued July 1, Mizuho outlined a code of conduct that abjures any influence or dealings with “anti-social elements.”(Time)

11. California's hippy communes in the 1960s abjured formal rules and bureaucracy and espoused egalitarianism, yet white males ended up running them, reflecting stereotypical societal norms – a pattern of patriarchy repeated by startups, said Turner.(The Guardian)

12. A violent fundamentalist abjures the reality of compromise.(Forbes)

词汇搭配

abjure belief, rule, violence

词汇家族

abjures, abjuring, abjured

词汇来源

early 15c., abjuren, "renounce on oath, repudiate, forswear," originally especially "renounce or recant (a heresy) on oath," from Old French abjurer and directly from Latin abiurare "deny on oath," from ab "off, away from" (see ab-) + iurare "to swear," from ius (genitive iuris) "law" (see jurist).

近义词

reject, abnegate, forswear (also foreswear), recant, renege, renounce, repeal, repudiate, retract, withdraw

反义词

continue, keep, persevere, persist

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