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, 4th edition, London: John Daye, 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, page 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

From ab- +‎ jurer, borrowed from Latin abiūrāre.

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

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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