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Six example sentences with abjure, each labelled with its topic.
Under pressure from the tribunal, the scholar agreed to abjure his printed claims about the motion of the earth.
History
New citizens abjure any prior allegiance in the ceremony, speaking the words aloud before the clerk records them.
Law
In the final act the magician breaks his staff and abjures the art he spent a lifetime perfecting.
Literature
The senator publicly abjured the position she had campaigned on, telling reporters the new evidence left her no choice.
Politics
Late in life Wittgenstein abjured much of his first book, calling several of its central claims simply mistaken.
Philosophy
After the replication failed, the chemist abjured his claim of cold fusion in a short letter to the journal.
Science
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