Usage examples for abjure
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They were offered their lives if they would consent to abjure the cause of the insurgent Covenanters, and to attend the Episcopal worship. – The History of England from the Accession of James II. Volume 1 (of 5) by Thomas Babington Macaulay
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There religious persecution forced Jews to abjure their faith, and the family of Maimon, like many others, had to comply, outwardly at least, with the requirements of Islam. – Jewish Literature and Other Essays by Gustav Karpeles
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Notices were given to known heretics who did not abjure after the publication of the edicts, that if they were converted in a certain time, they would be admitted to a reconciliation, and would only suffer a canonical penance. – The History of the Inquisition of Spain from the Time of its Establishment to the Reign of Ferdinand VII. by Juan Antonio Llorente