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To renounce something is to say officially and publicly that you are giving it up — a belief, a title, a claim, or a habit. It's a strong, formal word: a king might renounce the throne, or someone might renounce their citizenship of a country.
（正式）宣布放棄（頭銜、信仰、主張等）
原始詞典資料8 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
renouncenoun/ɹɪˈnaʊns/
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card-gamesgamesAn act of renouncing.
renounceverb/ɹɪˈnaʊns/
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To give up, resign, surrender.
- to renounce a title to land or to a throne
- It is terrible to think of the power of the world even in a redeemed soul. Here was a maid who had drunk of the well of grace and tasted of God's mercies, and yet there were moments when she was ready to renounce her hope.
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To cast off, repudiate.
- This world I do renounce, and in your sights Shake patiently my great affliction off.
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To decline further association with someone or something, disown.
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To abandon, forsake, discontinue (an action, habit, intention, etc), sometimes by open declaration.
- […] some families renounced the use of a certain praenomen which had been disgraced by one of their name […]
- His son Sidhartha had renounced material life and gone forth in search of enlightment. He received enlightment under a Bodhi tree at Gaya and became Buddha. Ashoka visited Gaya along with Upagupta and had darshan of Sambodhi.
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To make a renunciation of something.
- He of my sons who fails to make it good, / By one rebellious act renounces to my blood.
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To surrender formally some right or trust.
- Dryden died without a will, and his widow having renounced, his son Charles administered on June 10.
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card-gamesgamesTo fail to follow suit; playing a card of a different suit when having no card of the suit led.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。