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abjures
verb
(ab-jure)
formally reject or disavow a formerly held belief, usually under pressure
Synonyms:
forswear
,
recant
,
resile
,
retract
,
Examples:
She abjured her beliefs.
Words Related to
abjures
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forswear
,
recant
,
retract
,
retracts
,
effaces
,
reified
,
subverts
,
transfigure
,
forswears
,
sanctifies
,
elides
,
radicalizes
,
forsakes
,
subsumes
,
eternalize
,
transmutes
,
dissembles
,
betrays
,
entraps
,
deludes
,
renounces
,
softheaded
,
externalizes
,
foments
,
intuits
,
animates
,
subjugates
,
relativize
,
literalized
,
ennoble
,
inhere
,
insinuates
,
legitimating
,
deprecates
,
discerns
,
conceals
,
profanes
,
imbues
,
edifies
,
colludes
,
equivocates
,
sentimentalizes
,
repudiates
,
emancipates
,
conveys
,
obfuscates
,
eroticize
,
exalts
,
illumines
,
demythologize
,
spiritualize
,
attitudinizing
,
dissimulate
,
objectifies
,
confecting
,
vivify
,
limn
,
aggrandise
,
extenuate
,
traduce
,
misconstrues
,
unpeople
,
inculcates
,
countermands
,
derange
,
declaims
,
plagiarizes
,
disregards
,
scruple
,
mutilates
,
sacralized
,
propounds
,
perpetrates
,
connives
,
renders
,
conceives
,
evangelizes
,
coarsen
,
abrogates
,
trammeled
,
suffuse
,
beguiles
,
legitimatize
,
pretends
,
indulges
,
vulgarized
,
enmesh
,
implies
,
conflates
,
cultivates
,
invokes
,
judaized
,
enunciates
,
disarms
,
incarnated
,
construes
,
explicates
,
enfolds
,
defiles
,
sentimentalise
,
abjures
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