“renouncing” is a form of
renounce
/ɹɪˈnaʊns/ noun, verb
Forms renounces renouncing renounced
- noun (card games) An act of renouncing.
- verb (transitive) To give up, resign, surrender. “to renounce a title to land or to a throne”
- verb (transitive) To cast off, repudiate.
- verb (transitive) To decline further association with someone or something, disown.
- verb (transitive) To abandon, forsake, discontinue (an action, habit, intention, etc), sometimes by open declaration.
- verb (intransitive) To make a renunciation of something.
- verb (intransitive) To surrender formally some right or trust.
- verb (intransitive, card games) To fail to follow suit; playing a card of a different suit when having no card of the suit led.
Synonyms
atsake disown repudiate abjure deny disavow disclaim forsay forswear wash one's hands of abdicate vacate resign give up foreswear quit relinquish
Etymology
From Old French renoncier (French renoncer), from Latin renūntiō. Doublet of renunciate.
Webster’s 1913
- verb 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.
- verb To cast off or reject deliberately; to disown; to dismiss; to forswear.
- verb To make renunciation. [Obs.]
- verb To decline formally, as an executor or a person entitled to letters of administration, to take out probate or letters.
Etymology [F. renoncer, L. renuntiare to bring back word, announce, revoke, retract, renounce; pref. re- re- + nuntiare to announce, fr. nuncius, a messenger. See Nuncio, and cf. Renunciation.]
Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “renounce”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details