0 to say formally or publicly that you no longer agree with a belief or way of behaving:
He abjured his religion/his life of dissipation.
The assumption is that he had attained citizenship, either through marriage or through naturalization, and at that point may have been abjured from returning.
He abjures the coherent, instantly understandable, text and the consistent oeuvre in favour of a proliferation that reflects the fundamentally nonlinear character of cognition.
The film upholds the value of compassion and abjures all forms of retribution.
Thus, he proceeded to pressure several priests and bishops into abjuring their positions.
The guest agreed tacitly to take an oath of truce and symbolically abjured all vengeance.
He abjures the decadence of modern life...
The violent capture of all existing governments is one article of the creed of that faith communism, which abjures the possibility of success by lawful means.
Nothing on earth would lead me to abjure that power because it has to be used in the national interest.
