abjure

How To Use abjure In A Sentence

• Thus, Muldrow cannot help but abjure spiritual claims to universal enlightenment.
• I abjure them, I abhor them, I turn my back upon them forever and utterly. A TIME OF WAR
• He who votes against the rights of another whatever his religion, colour or sex, thereby abjures his own.
• That, presumably, is why he must 'abjure' this 'rough magic' by breaking his magical staff and drowning his book. Shakespeare
• Why, writing a tragedy himself, with a judgment far different from that exhibited in his panegyrical preface, he totally rejects, and therefore tacitly condemns and abjures the use of prose-poetry. Review
• And in his 'Notes on Nationalism' (1945) he wrote: "Those who" abjure "violence can only do so because others are committing violence on their behalf. George Orwell FAQ - George Orwell: The Chestnut Tree Cafe
• Many are content to seal off any discussion of gay matters with a simple declaration that God has abjured it as "an abomination. Eliot Daley: Same-Sex Marriage Is Not A Matter For Ballots
• So, what we end up at is a determina that Hamlet should "throw to earth/This unprevailing woe," that he should abjure his own grief. Modality and Hamlet
• And as the shadows deepen I light my candles and abjure the cold evening by gripping the picture and mouthing a litany of His name.
• I abjure them, I abhor them, I turn my back upon them forever and utterly. A TIME OF WAR