renounceとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA: /ɹɪˈnaʊns/
• 韻: -aʊns

名詞

renounce (plural renounces)

1. (card games) An act of renouncing.

関連する語

• renunciation

動詞

renounce (third-person singular simple present renounces, present participle renouncing, simple past and past participle renounced)

1. (transitive) To give up, resign, surrender.

   Synonym: (obsolete) atsake

   to renounce a title to land or to a throne

   • 1902, John Buchan, The Outgoing of the Tide:

     It is terrible to think of the power of the world even in a redeemed soul. Here was a maid who had drunk of the well of grace and tasted of God's mercies, and yet there were moments when she was ready to renounce her hope.

2. (transitive) To cast off, repudiate.
   • c. 1603–1606, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of King Lear”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene vi]:

     This world I do renounce, and in your sights
     Shake patiently my great affliction off.

3. (transitive) To decline further association with someone or something, disown.

   Synonyms: disown, repudiate; see also Thesaurus:repudiate

4. (transitive) To abandon, forsake, discontinue (an action, habit, intention, etc), sometimes by open declaration.
   • 1945, E[lizabeth] G[idley] Withycombe, “Introduction”, in The Oxford Dictionary of English Christian Names, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page xv:

     […] some families renounced the use of a certain praenomen which had been disgraced by one of their name […]

   • 2012 May 18, Sri B. G. Ramesh, translated by Sri M. N. Suresh Kumar, Ashoka‎, Bangalore: Sapna Book House (P) Ltd., →ISBN, page 14:

     His son Sidhartha had renounced material life and gone forth in search of enlightment. He received enlightment under a Bodhi tree at Gaya and became Buddha. Ashoka visited Gaya along with Upagupta and had darshan of Sambodhi.

   • 2020 December 2, Paul Bigland, “My weirdest and wackiest Rover yet”, in Rail, page 68:

     Time is running out, so I renounce a spin on a Class 387 for a fast run to Paddington on another Class 800 - a shame as the weather was perfect for pictures. Even so, it's enjoyable - boy, can those trains shift under the wires.

5. (intransitive) To make a renunciation of something.
   • 1687, [John Dryden], “(please specify the page number)”, in The Hind and the Panther. A Poem, in Three Parts, 2nd edition, London: […] Jacob Tonson […], →OCLC:

     He of my sons who fails to make it good, / By one rebellious act renounces to my blood.

6. (intransitive) To surrender formally some right or trust.
   • 1870, William Dougal Christie, Memoir of John Dryden:

     Dryden died without a will, and his widow having renounced, his son Charles administered on June 10.

7. (intransitive, card games) To fail to follow suit; playing a card of a different suit when having no card of the suit led.

同意語

• forsay
• forswear

派生語

• renounce the world
• renounceable
• renouncement
• renouncer

関連する語

• announce
• denounce
• pronounce

参照

• “renounce”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.