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abjure (ab-JOOR) verb tr.

   1. To renounce under oath; forswear.

   2. To recant solemnly; repudiate.

   3. To give up (an action or practice, for example); abstain from.

[Middle English abjuren, from Old French abjurer, from Latin abiurare : ab-,
away + iurare, to swear.]

   "I abjured meat out of the purity of my desire not to lie to my parents,
   but I didn't abjure the company of my friend."
   M.K. Gandhi, The Story of My Experiments With Truth, 1927.

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