What are the antonyms for ABJURE?
- allow, emphasize, accept, acknowledge, acquiesce, adhere, admit, adopt, advocate, affirm, assert, avow, back, bow, capitulate, cherish, claim, concede, confirm, contend, court, declare, defend, embrace, endorse, espouse, favor, give in, haunt, hold, keep, knuckle under, maintain, occupy, proclaim, profess, prosecute, protect, pursue, retain, seek, state, submit, succumb, support, surrender, undertake, uphold, vindicate, vouch, vow, yield.
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Usage Examples for ABJURE
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If he failed to compound for his crime, he had to appear before the coroner, clothed in sackcloth, confess his crime, and abjure the realm. - "Old Church Lore" by William Andrews
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But Agostino backed his entreaty to her to abjure that song; Rocco gave way, and half shyly requested her to think of prudence. - "Vittoria, v4" by George Meredith
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Adore then the terrestrial influences, and abjure Mahomet. - "The History of the Caliph Vathek" by William Beckford
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It would have led them through Bavarian territory, and thereby perhaps afforded Duke William, the ruler of the country, occasion to abjure his neutrality and turn openly against the Smalcalds. - "The Complete Historical Romances of Georg Ebers" by Georg Ebers
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If he consented, he was reconciled, and was subjected to punishments and penances; if he refused, he was excommunicated; and if he did not demand absolution, or promise to abjure after the space of one year, he was considered as an obstinate heretic, and proceeded against as such. - "The History of the Inquisition of Spain from the Time of its Establishment to the Reign of Ferdinand VII." by Juan Antonio Llorente
