abjure
C2CEFR level
85/100Rarity: very rare
FormalRegister
General verb
To solemnly renounce or reject a belief, cause, claim, or course of action.
On his release he publicly abjured the extremist views of his youth.
Law verb
To renounce solemnly, as of a prior allegiance upon naturalisation.
The oath required the applicant to abjure all foreign allegiances upon becoming a citizen.
Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.
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