abjure

verb

1. 公开保证放弃，声明放弃（信念、行为、活动）
   to promise publicly that you will give up or reject a belief or a way of behaving

1. VERB 发誓弃绝，郑重声明放弃(信仰、生活方式等）
   If you abjure something such as a belief or way of life, you state publicly that you will give it up or that you reject it.
   1. He abjured the Protestant faith and became King in 1594.
      他放弃了新教信仰，于1594年登基为王。
   2. ...a formal statement abjuring military action.
      表示放弃军事行动的正式声明

1. They were compelled to abjure their faith.
   他们被迫发誓放弃自己的信仰。
2. Scientists in the West generally abjure this sort of research on the grounds that it amounts to genetic engineering of humans.
   西方科学家普遍止步于这一类研究的门外，理由是它相当于开展人类基因工程。
3. Lord Blackwood shall be required to confess his treason and abjure his allegiance to the Starks and Tullys.
   布莱克伍德伯爵必须承认他的叛国，放弃对史塔克家族和徒利家族的效忠。
4. So, in a high-stakes, nationally televised debate, Obama might be called upon to defend his pastor and church, or abjure his faith.
   因此在一个风险很大的赌注，全国电视直播的辩论，奥巴马也许被要求去为他的牧师和教会辩护，要不就放弃他的信念。
5. The conqueror tried to make the natives abjure their religion.
   征服者试著让当地人宣誓放弃他们的宗教。
6. In addition to shunning narcotics, weapons and counterfeit currency, they should abjure "subversive activities" or the "display of religious, political or racial banners".
   除了毒品，武器，假钞外，这些外国人还不得进行颠覆性活动或者打出印有”宗教，政治和民族问题“内容的横幅。
7. Second, I am not stating that the US should abjure action forever.
   其次，我没有说美国应当永远不采取行动。
8. Even those who should abjure their errors were condemned, if men, to die by the sword; if women, to be buried alive.
   一个基督徒即使放弃了这些“异端”，仍是要被定罪的，男的用刀杀，女的活埋。
9. He tried to make his son abjure his religion.
   他企图让自己的儿子放其他的宗教信仰。
10. To realize this goal, in two ways, all artists had to abjure their isolation from the society.
    为了实现这个目标，所有的艺术家都必须在两个方面上放弃他们的脱离社会状态。
11. If you abjure something such as a belief or way of life, you state publicly that you will give it up or that you reject it.
    如果你发誓放弃一些东西例如信仰或生活方式，那么你就是公开声明你将放弃或拒绝它。
12. Some of the Roman Emperors tried to make Christians abjure their religion.
    有些罗马皇帝试著使基督教徒宣誓放弃他们的宗教。

verb

1. formally reject or disavow a formerly held belief, usually under pressure
   1. He retracted his earlier statements about his religion
   2. She abjured her beliefs

   Synonym:    recantforswearretractresile