Word Definition

Renounce

  1. Act of renouncing.
  2. To disclaim having a card of (the suit led) by playing a card of another suit.
  3. To decline formally, as an executor or a person entitled to letters of administration, to take out probate or letters.
  4. To make renunciation.
  5. To cast off or reject deliberately; to disown; to dismiss; to forswear.
  6. 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.