abjurer

English

Alternative forms

Etymology

abjure +‎ -er

Pronunciation
  • (US) IPA(key): /æbˈd͡ʒʊɹ.ɚ/
  • Audio (CA)(file)

Noun

abjurer (plural abjurers)

  1. One who abjures. [From 16th century]
    • 1583, John Foxe, Actes and Monuments, London: John Daye, 4th edition, Volume 2, Book 7,
      To thys Iames Morden with other moe abiurers, it was enioyned by Bishoppe Smith, for seuen yeares, to visite the church of Lincolne twise a yeare from Amersham.
    • 1655, William Prynne, A New Discovery of Free-State Tyranny, London: for the author, p. 25,
      […] to force him by tedious uncomfortable imprisonments, and extreame penury to turn a practicall Apostate and perjured abjurer of all his former Orthodox loyall Principles […]
    • 1777, Richard Brinsley Sheridan, The School for Scandal, III.iii:
      [N]o man can pretend to be a Believer in Love, who is an abjurer of wine—'tis the Test by which a Lover knows his own Heart—

Translations

French

Etymology

ab- +‎ jurer, borrowed from Latin abiūrō.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ab.ʒy.ʁe/
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Verb

abjurer

  1. (transitive, intransitive, very formal) to renounce or abandon solemnly; to abjure
  2. (transitive, intransitive, religion) to formally renounce one's religious belief; to apostatise
  3. (obsolete) to reject by oath someone's authority

Conjugation
Conjugation of abjurer (see also Appendix:French verbs)
infinitive simple abjurer
compound avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1 simple abjurant
/ab.ʒy.ʁɑ̃/
compound ayant + past participle
past participle abjuré
/ab.ʒy.ʁe/
singular plural
first second third first second third
indicative je (j’) tu il, elle, on nous vous ils, elles
(simple
tenses)		 present abjure
/ab.ʒyʁ/		 abjures
/ab.ʒyʁ/		 abjure
/ab.ʒyʁ/		 abjurons
/ab.ʒy.ʁɔ̃/		 abjurez
/ab.ʒy.ʁe/		 abjurent
/ab.ʒyʁ/
imperfect abjurais
/ab.ʒy.ʁɛ/		 abjurais
/ab.ʒy.ʁɛ/		 abjurait
/ab.ʒy.ʁɛ/		 abjurions
/ab.ʒy.ʁjɔ̃/		 abjuriez
/ab.ʒy.ʁje/		 abjuraient
/ab.ʒy.ʁɛ/
past historic2 abjurai
/ab.ʒy.ʁe/		 abjuras
/ab.ʒy.ʁa/		 abjura
/ab.ʒy.ʁa/		 abjurâmes
/ab.ʒy.ʁam/		 abjurâtes
/ab.ʒy.ʁat/		 abjurèrent
/ab.ʒy.ʁɛʁ/
future abjurerai
/ab.ʒy.ʁə.ʁe/		 abjureras
/ab.ʒy.ʁə.ʁa/		 abjurera
/ab.ʒy.ʁə.ʁa/		 abjurerons
/ab.ʒy.ʁə.ʁɔ̃/		 abjurerez
/ab.ʒy.ʁə.ʁe/		 abjureront
/ab.ʒy.ʁə.ʁɔ̃/
conditional abjurerais
/ab.ʒy.ʁə.ʁɛ/		 abjurerais
/ab.ʒy.ʁə.ʁɛ/		 abjurerait
/ab.ʒy.ʁə.ʁɛ/		 abjurerions
/ab.ʒy.ʁə.ʁjɔ̃/		 abjureriez
/ab.ʒy.ʁə.ʁje/		 abjureraient
/ab.ʒy.ʁə.ʁɛ/
(compound
tenses)		 present perfect present indicative of avoir + past participle
pluperfect imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle
past anterior2 past historic of avoir + past participle
future perfect future of avoir + past participle
conditional perfect conditional of avoir + past participle
subjunctive que je (j’) que tu qu’il, qu’elle que nous que vous qu’ils, qu’elles
(simple
tenses)		 present abjure
/ab.ʒyʁ/		 abjures
/ab.ʒyʁ/		 abjure
/ab.ʒyʁ/		 abjurions
/ab.ʒy.ʁjɔ̃/		 abjuriez
/ab.ʒy.ʁje/		 abjurent
/ab.ʒyʁ/
imperfect2 abjurasse
/ab.ʒy.ʁas/		 abjurasses
/ab.ʒy.ʁas/		 abjurât
/ab.ʒy.ʁa/		 abjurassions
/ab.ʒy.ʁa.sjɔ̃/		 abjurassiez
/ab.ʒy.ʁa.sje/		 abjurassent
/ab.ʒy.ʁas/
(compound
tenses)		 past present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
pluperfect2 imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative – tu – nous vous –
simple — abjure
/ab.ʒyʁ/		 — abjurons
/ab.ʒy.ʁɔ̃/		 abjurez
/ab.ʒy.ʁe/		 —
compound — simple imperative of avoir + past participle — simple imperative of avoir + past participle simple imperative of avoir + past participle —
1 The French gerund is usable only with the preposition en.
2 In less formal writing or speech, these tenses may be found to have been replaced in the following way:
  • past historic → present perfect
  • past anterior → pluperfect
  • imperfect subjunctive → present subjunctive
  • pluperfect subjunctive → past subjunctive

(Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).

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