Renounce

(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.

编辑:内尔达

• You own the name and renounce the _alias_? 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• Better to say at once, sir, returned Richard, that you renounce all confidence in me and that you advise Ada to do the same. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• If I renounce my Order, for thee alone will I renounce it--Ambition shall remain mine, if thou refuse my love; I will not be fooled on all hands. 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
• I could not offer myself to any woman, even if she had no luxuries to renounce. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• But we must live, and not act our lives; pursuing the shadow, I lost the reality--now I renounce both. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• Take the Protectorship who will; before God I renounce it! 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• But since providential indications demand a renunciation from me, I renounce. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• She married me in opposition to her father's wish, and he renounced her. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
• Perdita, wedded to an imagination, careless of what is behind the veil, whose charactery is in truth faulty and vile, Perdita has renounced me. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• How very few of those men in a rank of life to address Emma would have renounced their own home for Hartfield! 简·奥斯汀. 爱玛.
• But you have renounced his service but now, said Wamba. 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
• The community of women and children is renounced; the institution of common or public meals for women (Laws) is for the first time introduced (Ar. 柏拉图. 理想国.
• I knew myself when I renounced it. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• Do you think that I renounced the Protectorate (and I have renounced it) in a fit of spleen? 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• Her face brightened at this, but she drew her hand away, not with a gesture of coquetry, but as though renouncing something to which she had no claim. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
• Go to him, then, and tell him that Gurth the son of Beowulph renounces his service. 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.

编辑:梅森