Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗verb
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryTo renounce (one’s faith or god), to apostasize from. · To take back, to recant (something one says or believes). · To reject, to deny the truth of (a statement).
From Middle English reneye, from Old French reneier, French renier, renier, from Latin re- (“re-”) + negare (“to deny”). See renegade. Doublet of renege and related to deny.
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