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abjure
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  • But that was an abjuration which, as they well knew, they were powerless to extort.†   (source)
  • I am waiting from hour to hour for him to come and abjure his evidence.†   (source)
  • —Here, cousin Wilfred of Ivanhoe, in thy favour I renounce and abjure—Hey!†   (source)
  • The protesting minority were forgotten in the throng which abjured and came; and the audience was almost as brilliant as the show.†   (source)
  • On receiving this the victim might either openly abjure his former ways, or might fly from the country.†   (source)
  • To gaze into the depths of blue of the child's eyes and pronounce their loveliness a trick of premature cunning was to be guilty of a cynicism in preference to which I naturally preferred to abjure my judgment and, so far as might be, my agitation.†   (source)
  • I couldn't abjure for merely wanting to, but I could repeat to Mrs. Grose—as I did there, over and over, in the small hours—that with their voices in the air, their pressure on one's heart, and their fragrant faces against one's cheek, everything fell to the ground but their incapacity and their beauty.†   (source)
  • In presence of this scene after the other there was a natural instinct to abjure man as the blot on an otherwise kindly universe; till it was remembered that all terrestrial conditions were intermittent, and that mankind might some night be innocently sleeping when these quiet objects were raging loud.†   (source)
  • Sir, sir, I am sorry for Marie Antoinette, archduchess and queen; but I am also sorry for that poor Huguenot woman, who, in 1685, under Louis the Great, sir, while with a nursing infant, was bound, naked to the waist, to a stake, and the child kept at a distance; her breast swelled with milk and her heart with anguish; the little one, hungry and pale, beheld that breast and cried and agonized; the executioner said to the woman, a mother and a nurse, 'Abjure!' giving her her choice between the death of her infant and the death of her conscience.†   (source)
  • The plain truth is, I have forsworn and abjured the whole business these many years, and my soul is sick of it.†   (source)
  • Oh, I have been base, cowardly, I tell you; I have abjured my affections, and like all renegades I am of evil omen to those who surround me!†   (source)
  • Though I made no further observation of her at the moment, I may mention here what I did not discover until afterwards, namely, that she was one of a series of protegees whom my aunt had taken into her service expressly to educate in a renouncement of mankind, and who had generally completed their abjuration by marrying the baker.†   (source)
  • I swear to you, Monsieur Commissary, that you are in the profoundest error, that I know nothing in the world about what my wife had to do, that I am entirely a stranger to what she has done; and that if she has committed any follies, I renounce her, I abjure her, I curse her!†   (source)
  • I am half resolved to go to the Grand Master, abjure the Order to his very teeth, and refuse to act the brutality which his tyranny has imposed on me.†   (source)
  • On examining her heart it appeared beyond measure strange that the subject of which the season might have been supposed suggestive—the event in the hall at Boldwood's—was not agitating her at all; but instead, an agonizing conviction that everybody abjured her—for what she could not tell—and that Oak was the ringleader of the recusants.†   (source)
  • No one abjures the exercise of his reason and his free will; but every one exerts that reason and that will for the benefit of a common undertaking.†   (source)
  • 'Now, the best thing you can do, sir, if you'll allow me to advise you,' said my aunt, after silently observing him, 'is to abjure that occupation for evermore.'†   (source)
  • "Madame," replied Villefort, with a mournful smile, "I have already had the honor to observe that my father has—at least, I hope so—abjured his past errors, and that he is, at the present moment, a firm and zealous friend to religion and order—a better royalist, possibly, than his son; for he has to atone for past dereliction, while I have no other impulse than warm, decided preference and conviction."†   (source)
  • In democratic States organized on the principles of the American republics, this is more especially the case, where the authority of the majority is so absolute and so irresistible that a man must give up his rights as a citizen, and almost abjure his quality as a human being, if te intends to stray from the track which it lays down.†   (source)
  • In the taking of legal oaths, for instance, deponents seem to enjoy themselves mightily when they come to several good words in succession, for the expression of one idea; as, that they utterly detest, abominate, and abjure, or so forth; and the old anathemas were made relishing on the same principle.†   (source)
  • The members of these associations respond to a watchword, like soldiers on duty; they profess the doctrine of passive obedience; say rather, that in uniting together they at once abjure the exercise of their own judgment and free will; and the tyrannical control which these societies exercise is often far more insupportable than the authority possessed over society by the Government which they attack.†   (source)
  • These were his words, and all the Akhaians gave a roar of joy to hear the prince abjure his rage.†   (source)
  • THESEUS Either to die the death, or to abjure For ever the society of men.   (source)
    abjure = reject
  • To Master Percy Apjohn at High School in 1880 he had divulged his disbelief in the tenets of the Irish (protestant) church (to which his father Rudolf Virag (later Rudolph Bloom) had been converted from the Israelitic faith and communion in 1865 by the Society for promoting Christianity among the jews) subsequently abjured by him in favour of Roman catholicism at the epoch of and with a view to his matrimony in 1888.†   (source)
  • Say, didst thou too abet This crime, or dost abjure all privity?†   (source)
  • But this rough magic I here abjure; and, when I have requir'd Some heavenly music,—which even now I do,— To work mine end upon their senses that This airy charm is for, I'll break my staff, Bury it certain fathoms in the earth, And deeper than did ever plummet sound I'll drown my book.†   (source)
  • She disappeared, and left me dark; I waked
    To find her, or for ever to deplore
    Her loss, and other pleasures all abjure:
    When out of hope, behold her, not far off,
    Such as I saw her in my dream, adorned
    With what all Earth or Heaven could bestow
    To make her amiable: On she came,
    Led by her heavenly Maker, though unseen,
    And guided by his voice; nor uninformed
    Of nuptial sanctity, and marriage rites:
    Grace was in all her steps, Heaven in her eye,
    In every gesture dignity and love.†   (source)
  • And while I suffer thus, there comes no ray Of hope to gladden me athwart the gloom; Nor do I look for it in my despair; But rather clinging to a cureless woe, All hope do I abjure for evermore.†   (source)
  • No, rather I abjure all roofs, and choose To wage against the enmity o' the air; To be a comrade with the wolf and owl,— Necessity's sharp pinch!†   (source)
  • A virtuous maid, the daughter of a count That died some twelvemonth since; then leaving her In the protection of his son, her brother, Who shortly also died; for whose dear love, They say, she hath abjured the company And sight of men.†   (source)
  • Devilish Macbeth
    By many of these trains hath sought to win me
    Into his power; and modest wisdom plucks me
    From over-credulous haste: but God above
    Deal between thee and me! for even now
    I put myself to thy direction, and
    Unspeak mine own detraction; here abjure
    The taints and blames I laid upon myself,
    For strangers to my nature.   (source)
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