How To Use Abjure In A Sentence
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He abjured an inclination to ‘tinker’ with the rate to take account of transient shifts in market conditions.
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If a record could be kept of those who have abjured Jesus through love of gold, through fear of the world or of the scribes and Pharisees, we should find many who are considered quite respectable, or have even been canonised, and who, nevertheless, much more worthily than Iscariot, are entitled to "champing" by the jaws of Sathanas.
Pages from a Journal with Other Papers
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Why," said the Deist, "there is as much difference as in the theories of our 'intuitional' friends here, one of whom admits, and another denies, the future existence of man; for if we be the ephemeral insects the latter supposes, it little matters what system of religion we espouse or abjure.
The Eclipse of Faith Or, A Visit To A Religious Sceptic
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We were asked first to ‘absolutely and entirely renounce and abjure all allegiances and fidelity to any foreign prince, potentate, state, or sovereignty.’
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The conqueror tried to make the natives abjure their religion.
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She abjured her beliefs
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If Alceste truly yearns to be an iconoclast might he not find it more daring to abjure such grottiness?
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Those who 'abjure' violence can only do so because others are committing violence on their behalf.
Shame on NBC News.
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If given the chance, she would have rejoined the Order, but for those who abjure their vows, there is never a second chance.
THE BROKEN GOD
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He abjured the Protestant faith and became King in 1594.
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It is at this point when he abjures legal justice that he articulates the notion of a just revenge.
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Erard exclaimed that she must "abjure" or be burnt at once.
The Story of Rouen
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Adrienne Lecouvreur on her deathbed was willing to confess and receive communion, but refused to abjure her profession.
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So, in a high-stakes, nationally televised debate, Obama might be called upon to defend his pastor and church, or abjure his faith.
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Indeed, if many investors abjure the listing , those who hold their noses and take the plunge might make even more money.
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Myln was a former priest, who had abjured in the early 1540s.
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If given the chance, she would have rejoined the Order, but for those who abjure their vows, there is never a second chance.
THE BROKEN GOD
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After a long and wearisome trial he was condemned on June 22, 1633, solemnly to abjure his scientific creed on bended knees.
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They limited punishment to the person charged, and abjured the attainder of the traitor's relatives or heirs.
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April 25th, 2009 at 12: 32 pm casino gran canaria says: casino gran canaria … abjured Noah: bijective? gives!
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He abjures both quietism which leaves the world to its fate and the ‘myth of progress’ and looks to a Jesus who is still followed but also at least partly hidden and ‘yet to be revealed’.
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He abjured his religion/his life of dissipation.
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Even his critics within the jihadist movement describe a humble man who leads by example and has abjured every material comfort for a life dedicated to defending his conception of Islam.
The Longest War
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Again, as their bond is supposed to reduplicate upon the national covenants, and so to bind to every article in them, by native consequence, they swear to a prelatical government: for seeing they have made no exception in their bond, it must be applied to no other, but the government, which presently exists; and this, in flat contradiction to the covenants, by which such a government is abjured.
Act, Declaration, & Testimony for the Whole of our Covenanted Reformation, as Attained to, and Established in Britain and Ireland; Particularly Betwixt the Years 1638 and 1649, Inclusive
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On the morning of June 22, 1633 in the hall of the convent of Santa Maria sopra Minvera in Rome, Galileo Galilei knelt before the Lord-Cardinal Inquisitors-General and publicly abjured his false opinion that the sun was the motionless center of the universe.
Matt J. Rossano: The Galileo Affair: Emblematic Or Exceptional?
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When bound to the stake, two cartloads of fagots and straw were piled up around him, and the palsgrave and vogt for the last time adjured him to abjure.
The Profits of Religion, Fifth Edition
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There was some murmuring among the crowd during this long ceremony; for while Jeanne was alive the English soldiery dared attempt nothing fresh; and they only saw in her refusals to "abjure" an immediate reason for handing her over from the ecclesiastical justice to the secular, whose ways were swifter.
The Story of Rouen
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He alone of all men must for an uncertain time abjure this field of endeavour, however great his interest.
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The clear implication is that the Party abjured all forms of violence and acts of terror.
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She must curdle the milk, make Macbeth abjure his good qualities, if he is to act as she wishes.
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I want to look closely at the first lines of the poem, in which Smith seems to abjure any claim of authority.
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If only she could abjure art the way she abjured religion and write less self-consciously, the true artist would re-emerge from what is beginning to seem like indefinite hibernation.
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In the novel Larch abjures sex after contracting gonorrhoea during his sole act of coition.
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Among these aforenamed persons who thus submitted themselves certain there were, who, because they had been abjured before were now condemned for relapse, and had sentence read aginst them.
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I abjure them, I abhor them, I turn my back upon them forever and utterly.
A TIME OF WAR
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If given the chance, she would have rejoined the Order, but for those who abjure their vows, there is never a second chance.
THE BROKEN GOD
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Democracies, in particular, over a very long period of time, have very definitely abjured their use, which has brought us to the present situation, fraught as it is with destructive implications.
Robert Eisenman: The Power of Ultimatums -- the Forgotten Diplomatic Tool
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The slogan stuck and helped encourage a conception of jazz that abjured the predictable.
Hear It, Feel It
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A second illustration: -- Did Curio, the 'quondam' patriot, reformer, and semi-revolutionist, abjure his opinion, and yell the foremost in the hunt of persecution against his old friends and fellow-philosophists, with a cold clear predetermination, formed at one moment, of making
Literary Remains, Volume 1
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If given the chance, she would have rejoined the Order, but for those who abjure their vows, there is never a second chance.
THE BROKEN GOD
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If given the chance, she would have rejoined the Order, but for those who abjure their vows, there is never a second chance.
THE BROKEN GOD
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Thus, Muldrow cannot help but abjure spiritual claims to universal enlightenment.
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Lord Blackwood shall be required to confess his treason and abjure his allegiance to the Starks and Tullys.
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These are the very people Orwell was describing, who 'abjure' violence and are not even aware that they are kept safe by 'rough men' ready to do violence on their behalf.
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He eagerly concurs in the prince's vow to abjure the throne and marriage.
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She becomes a devotee of women's rights, abjures marriage, and founds a university.
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I abjure them, I abhor them, I turn my back upon them forever and utterly.
A TIME OF WAR
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Nineteen years old, her head shaven, surrounded by placards branding her a witch, idolatress, and abjured heretic, she invoked the Holy Names of Jesus and Mary, and St Michael the Archangel.
Jehanne la Pucelle
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Of course, as is widely known, the last twenty-five years have witnessed a renewed interest in collectivist analyses of liberal society ” though the term ˜collectivist™ is abjured in favor of ˜communitarian™.
Liberalism
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I abjure them, I abhor them, I turn my back upon them forever and utterly.
A TIME OF WAR
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And as the shadows deepen I light my candles and abjure the cold evening by gripping the picture and mouthing a litany of His name.
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So, what we end up at is a determina that Hamlet should "throw to earth/This unprevailing woe," that he should abjure his own grief.
Modality and Hamlet
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Many are content to seal off any discussion of gay matters with a simple declaration that God has abjured it as "an abomination.
Eliot Daley: Same-Sex Marriage Is Not A Matter For Ballots
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And in his 'Notes on Nationalism' (1945) he wrote: "Those who" abjure "violence can only do so because others are committing violence on their behalf.
George Orwell FAQ - George Orwell: The Chestnut Tree Cafe
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Why, writing a tragedy himself, with a judgment far different from that exhibited in his panegyrical preface, he totally rejects, and therefore tacitly condemns and abjures the use of prose-poetry.
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That, presumably, is why he must 'abjure' this 'rough magic' by breaking his magical staff and drowning his book.
Shakespeare
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He who votes against the rights of another whatever his religion, colour or sex, thereby abjures his own.
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_repentance; _ a repentance, namely, that reaches to the sending away, or abjurement of sins.
Hope of the Gospel
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And you'll impress your pals when you drop "abjure" or "loquacity" in conversation.
Dan Brown: This Videogame Makes You Smarter and Helps the Hungry: The FreeRice Phenomenon
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If the accused would neither submit to trial nor abjure the realm after 40 days, he was starved into submission.
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Indeed, if many investors abjure the listing , those who hold their noses and take the plunge might make even more money.
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She was willing to select, modify and incorporate alien eccentricities into her worship; but to abjure her own faith — never!
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I abjure them, I abhor them, I turn my back upon them forever and utterly.
A TIME OF WAR
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This is Orwell's definition of a particular segement of society: "Those who" abjure "violence can only do so because others are committing violence on their behalf.
Sound Politics: "Are Iraqi rebels cheering Dems big election wins?"
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Disappointed in this, they turned in 1650 to Charles II, who signed the Covenant, but then abjured it at his RESTORATION, condemning it as an unlawful oath.
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The conqueror tried to make the natives abjure their religion.
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Just as many modern restaurateurs think you should do without a cruet, some modish winemakers abjure oak, preferring to let the grapes speak for themselves.
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I abjure them, I abhor them, I turn my back upon them forever and utterly.
A TIME OF WAR
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Indeed, as George Orwell observed, "Those who 'abjure' violence can only do so because others are committing violence on their behalf.
Archive 2009-04-01
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On the morning of June 22, 1633 in the hall of the convent of Santa Maria sopra Minvera in Rome, Galileo Galilei knelt before the Lord-Cardinal Inquisitors-General and publicly abjured his false opinion that the sun was the motionless center of the universe.
Matt J. Rossano: The Galileo Affair: Emblematic Or Exceptional?
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I would abjure my art then and there, leave off cursing, leave off binding fast and loose with spells.
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And then, what man can pretend to be a believer in love, who is an abjurer of wine?
Act Third. Scene III
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They made him watch a parody of his debating style from television's Saturday Night Live. They abjured him to avoid anecdotes where he might misstep.
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St Christopher was baptized and abjured his erstwhile human-eating.
August 4th, 2009
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'Pak has evidence about India's involvement in Balochistan' today said Government was willing to open talks with the Maoists provided they "abjure" violence which, he said, was the only hurdle to hold
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An analysis of the institutional politics of the tax depreciation cases also lends support to an explanation why the judiciary abjured precise definition of ‘profits’ for income tax or dividend distribution purposes.