| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| renounce |
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| SYLLABICATION: | re·nounce |
| PRONUNCIATION: |  r -nouns |
| VERB: | Inflected forms: re·nounced, re·nounc·ing, re·nounc·es
| | TRANSITIVE VERB: | 1. To give up (a title, for example), especially by formal announcement. See synonyms at relinquish. 2. To reject; disown. | | INTRANSITIVE VERB: | Games To revoke in cards. | | NOUN: | Games A revoke in cards. | | ETYMOLOGY: | Middle English renouncen, from Old French renoncer, from Latin ren nti re, to report : re-, re- + nntire, to announce (from nntius, messenger; see neu- in Appendix I). | | OTHER FORMS: | re·nouncement —NOUN
re·nouncer —NOUN
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