Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗To solemnly reject (someone or something); to abandon (someone or something) forever; to disavow, to disclaim, to repudiate. · To renounce (something) upon oath; to forswear; specifically, to recant or retract (a heresy or some other opinion); to withdraw. · To cause (someone) to recant or retract (a heresy or some other opinion). · Especially in abjure the realm: to swear an oath to leave (a place) forever.
From Late Middle English abjuren (“to give up (something); to recant or renounce (something) under oath”), from Anglo-Norman abjurer, Middle French abiurer, abjurer, and Old French abjurer (“to reject or renounce (something) on oath”) (modern French abjurer), and from their etymon Latin abiūrāre, the present active infinitive of abiūrō (“to deny on oath, recant, renounce, repudiate, abjure”), from ab- (prefix meaning ‘away from, from’) + iūro (“to take an oath, swear, vow”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₂yew- (“(adjective) right; straight; upright; (noun) justice; law; right”).
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- Root classification mention*h₂yew-ine-pro
- Inherited-form mentionabjurenenm · to give up (something); to recant or renounce (something) under oath
- Derivation mentionabiurerfrm
- Derivation mentionabjurerfro · to reject or renounce (something) on oath
- Cognate mentionabjurerfr
- Derivation mentionabiūrārela
- Derivation mention*h₂yew-ine-pro · (adjective) right; straight; upright; (noun) justice; law; right
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