0 present participle of abjure
1 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.
One might conclude that this partial restoration is a reward for abjuring idolatry and loving responsibly.
This policy was not now repudiated, but the presence of abjuring heretics at the ceremony was itself tangible evidence of a more direct, locally focused approach.
I have not managed to trace the slightest record of them abjuring such a tactic.
By abjuring the most severe penalty we may be giving up what is to some people a deterrent.
Thus, he proceeded to pressure several priests and bishops into abjuring their positions.
Abjuring priests (jurors) became known as constitutional clergy, and nonjuring priests as refractory clergy.
