verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
claim
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In the summer he crushed Geoffrey's rebellion and compelled him to renounce his claim .
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I admire the way he has virtually renounced ancestral claims to deification.
world
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Eliot was unable to renounce the world he knew.
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Ceolwulf may genuinely have wished to renounce the world .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Rudolph voluntarily renounced his U.S. citizenship.
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We absolutely renounce all forms of terrorism.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Bernard and Ellen went to visit Belinda, who had renounced her separatist tendencies sufficiently to marry a graphics designer.
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Edward reportedly surrendered and abdicated, whereupon the estates renounced their homage to him and then returned to inform parliament.
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I admire the way he has virtually renounced ancestral claims to deification.
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I reminded him of my advice that he should not have renounced the Upper House so speedily.
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It demands insight into the necessity of growing old, and the courage to renounce what is no longer compatible with it.
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With admirable diligence it worked away, renouncing its authority over one territory after another.