different between renounce vs apostatize

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

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References

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

English

Alternative forms

• apostatise

Etymology

apostate +? -ize

Verb

apostatize (third-person singular simple present apostatizes, present participle apostatizing, simple past and past participle apostatized)

1. To give up or renounce one's position or belief.

Synonyms

• commit apostasy

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