abjure

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By 1907, when Sargent was 51, he’d had enough: “No more paughtraits,” he wrote in a now-famous note, “I abhor and abjure them and hope never to do another especially of the Upper Classe.”

From Washington Post • Mar. 5, 2020

Johnson managed to abjure his past and, on the march toward an exceptionally successful career, leave it behind.

From The New Yorker • Dec. 12, 2018

Press notes indicate some serial business ahead, putting extra pressure on Astral's decision whether to remain mortal and forever abjure the company of fairies, or to get back to where she once belonged.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 8, 2016

"This rough magic, I here abjure … And deeper than did ever plummet sound, I'll drown my book."

From The Guardian • Nov. 12, 2012

He was arrested on the charge of being a priest, but, although extraordinary efforts were made to induce him to abjure his opinions, he remained firm.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 4 "Hero" to "Hindu Chronology" by Various