| To recant is to withdraw or disavow a declared belief, as in renouncing a philosophy or abjuring fealty to a religion. |
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| Rather than abjuring claims to poetic vision, her poetry pretends not to aspire to authority even as it quietly seizes it. |
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| She went on a strict diet of milk products, even abjuring her beloved Mars chocolate bars, and dropped to her present weight of 90 pounds. |
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| They have ceased to practise, and perhaps even to believe in their faith without abjuring it, like many if not most of us. |
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| The nineteenth-century elites kept to their strict Protestant ways, abjuring the theater but supporting music. |
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| He offers the possibility of finding happiness by abjuring the pursuit of pleasure. |
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| The Dutch themselves take great pride in their cultural heritage, and the government is heavily involved in subsidizing the arts, while abjuring direct artistic control of cultural enterprises. |
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| People are better off abjuring violence, if everyone else agrees to do so, and vesting authority in a disinterested third party. |
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