MEANING
To declare the abandonment or rejection of a claim, belief, allegiance, or entitlement.
Use it for
Words that belong together
- renounce a claim
- renounce an allegiance
On the page
She renounced the claim before anyone challenged its validity.
He would not renounce the allegiance that had cost him so much.
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Word forms
- Base
- renounce
- Past tense
- renounced
- Past participle
- renounced
- Present participle
- renouncing
Full tense & aspect guide
- Present
- renounce
- Present continuous
- am/is/are renouncing
- Present perfect
- have/has renounced
- Present perfect continuous
- have/has been renouncing
- Past
- renounced
- Past continuous
- was/were renouncing
- Past perfect
- had renounced
- Past perfect continuous
- had been renouncing
- Future
- will renounce
- Future continuous
- will be renouncing
- Future perfect
- will have renounced
- Future perfect continuous
- will have been renouncing
Choose the auxiliary that agrees with your subject. These are constructions of one word, not separate entries.
Usage notes
Primary category: literary. Forms: renounce; renounces; renounced; renounced; renouncing Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Third-person singular: renounces.
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