noun act of renouncing.
2. renounce ·vi to make renunciation.
3. renounce ·vt to disclaim having a card of (the suit led) by playing a card of another suit.
4. renounce ·vi to decline formally, as an executor or a person entitled to letters of administration, to take out probate or letters.
5. renounce ·vt to cast off or reject deliberately; to disown; to dismiss; to forswear.
6. renounce ·vt to declare against; to reject or decline formally; to refuse to own or acknowledge as belonging to one; to disclaim; as, to renounce a title to land or to a throne.