abjure

• Those who would not abjure were placed on one side and had their heads cut off, and those who abjured on another side Here the Sultan sent his councillors to speak with us. —  The Memoirs of the Lord of Joinville
• But even whilst they deny and abjure, they are yet compelled to serve, the power which is seated upon the throne of their own soul. —  LaRouche's Latest
• Erard exclaimed that she must "abjure" or be burnt at once. —  The Story of Rouen
• Massieu read to her a formula "of some eight lines," according to his testimony afterwards There was some murmuring among the crowd during this long ceremony; for while Jeanne was alive the English soldiery dared attempt nothing fresh; and they only saw in her refusals to "abjure" an immediate reason for handing her over from the ecclesiastical justice to the secular, whose ways were swifter. —  The Story of Rouen
• He revoked his last order, enjoined the execution of the former decrees of parliament, so far as they concerned those who had failed to abjure, and commanded the governor of Provence, or his lieutenant, to employ all his forces to exterminate any found guilty of the Waldensian heresy. —  The Rise of the Hugenots, Vol. 1 (of 2)

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