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A.Word.A.Day--abjure

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.

This week's theme: words from Gandhi's autobiography.

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