Other forms: abjured, abjuring
To abjure is to give up a belief or a claim by solemn promise. Abjure violence.
It is stronger than abandoning, since a promise is made in public. To abjure something is a formal act with a history in law and in religion.
1verbabjureTo give up a belief or a claim by solemn promise.
“He was made to abjure the whole doctrine in front of the court.”
abjure is a renouncing.
Latin abjurare means to deny on oath, from ab plus jurare, to swear.
Proto-Indo-European
*h₂yew- — (adjective) right; straight; upright; (noun) justice; law; right
Latin
abiūrāre
Old French
abjurer — to reject or renounce (something) on oath
Middle French
abiurer
Anglo-Norman
abjurer
Middle English
abjuren — to give up (something); to recant or renounce (something) under oath
English, today
abjure
Built from
From Late Middle English abjuren (“to give up (something); to recant or renounce (something) under oath”), from Anglo-Norman abjurer, Middle French abiurer, abjurer, and Old French abjurer (“to reject or renounce (something) on oath”) (modern French abjurer), and from their etymon Latin abiūrāre, the present active infinitive of abiūrō (“to deny on oath, recant, renounce, repudiate, abjure”), from ab- + iūro (“to take an oath, swear, vow”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European h₂yew- (“(adjective) right; straight; upright; (noun) justice; law; right”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA