different between quitclaim vs renounce

English

Etymology

From Middle English quiteclaymen, from Anglo-Norman quiteclamer, from clamer quite (“to claim quit”). Compare claim quit.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?kw?tkle?m/

Verb

quitclaim (third-person singular simple present quitclaims, present participle quitclaiming, simple past and past participle quitclaimed)

1. (transitive) To relinquish or release (a claim, title etc.); to transfer (an interest in property). [from 14th c.]
   • 1991, JD Gordon, "How Not to Succeed in Law School", Yale Law Journal, April

     I hereby give, grant, bargain, sell, release, convey, transfer, and quitclaim all my right, title, interest, benefit, and use whatever in, of, and concerning this chattel, otherwise known as an orange, or citrus orantium, together with all the appurtenances thereto of skin, pulp, pip, rind, seeds, and juice for his own use and behoof, to himself and his heirs in fee simple forever, free from all liens, encumbrances, easements, limitations, restraints, or conditions whatsoever, any and all prior deeds, transfers or other documents whatsoever.

   • 2012, Julia Flynn Siler, Lost Kingdom, Grove Press, p. 86:

     It introduced a bill into the legislature that allowed the king to quitclaim all of Ruth's lands in return for Spreckels gaining title to 24,000 crucial acres at Wailuku, near Spreckelsville.

Noun

quitclaim (plural quitclaims)

1. A renunciation of claims.
2. A deed that is a renunciation of claims to a parcel of real property and a transfer of one's claims to another.

Translations

See also

• quitclaim on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???na?ns/
• Rhymes: -a?ns

Noun

renounce (plural renounces)

1. (card games) An act of renouncing.

Related terms

• renunciation

Verb

renounce (third-person singular simple present renounces, present participle renouncing, simple past and past participle renounced)

1. (transitive) To give up, resign, surrender, atsake.

2. (transitive) To cast off, repudiate.
3. (transitive) To decline further association with someone or something, disown.

   Synonyms: disown, repudiate; see also Thesaurus:repudiate

4. (transitive) To abandon, forsake, discontinue (an action, habit, intention, etc), sometimes by open declaration.
5. (intransitive) To make a renunciation of something.
6. (intransitive) To surrender formally some right or trust.
   • 1870 William Dougal Christie, Memoir of John Dryden

     Dryden died without a will, and his widow having renounced, his son Charles administered on June 10.

7. (intransitive, card games) To fail to follow suit; playing a card of a different suit when having no card of the suit led.

Synonyms

• forsay
• forswear

Derived terms

• renounceable
• renouncement
• renouncer

Related terms

• announce
• denounce
• pronounce

Translations

References

• renounce in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.