Abjure

(verb.) formally reject or disavow a formerly held belief, usually under pressure; 'He retracted his earlier statements about his religion'; 'She abjured her beliefs'.

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• On receiving this the victim might either openly abjure his former ways, or might fly from the country. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯历险记.
• Do not talk of reflection; from this moment I abjure it; this is my only happy moment during a long interval of time. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• I am half resolved to go to the Grand Master, abjure the Order to his very teeth, and refuse to act the brutality which his tyranny has imposed on me. 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
• The plain truth is, I have forsworn and abjured the whole business these many years, and my soul is sick of it. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• The protesting minority were forgotten in the throng which abjured and came; and the audience was almost as brilliant as the show. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.

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