Abjure in a sentence as a verb

From the motto alone you might think the point is to abjure all code duplication.

It is not claimed, again, that the Indians should abjure violence in their struggle against the British.

If this satisfies you better then: "Those who 'abjure' violence can do so only because others are committing violence on their behalf.

I've been a Fastmail user for ages now. As I abhor and abjure web applications, my personal calculus is different than that of someone seeking to flee the UI changes that Google is implementing.

He was required to "abjure, curse and detest" those opinions"- "He was sentenced to formal imprisonment at the pleasure of the Inquisition.

The US oath of allegiance requires you to "renounce and abjure all allegiance and fidelity to any foreign prince, potentate, state, or sovereignty".

Namely: "I hereby declare, on oath, that I absolutely and entirely renounce and abjure all allegiance and fidelity to any foreign prince, potentate, state, or sovereignty, of whom or which I have heretofore been a subject or citizen; ..." It doesn't have anything to do with which country you are from.

The dividing line between good and evil is not inherently related to corporations, because these folk don't abjure solar panels, 4WDs or mobile 'phones, the manufacturers of which are presumably Good.

"I hereby declare, on oath, that I absolutely and entirely renounce and abjure all allegiance and fidelity to any foreign prince, potentate, state, or sovereignty of whom or which I have heretofore been a subject or citizen"

In the US oath of \nallegiance citizens swear or affirm allegiance to the Constitution and instead of swearing or affirming allegiance, \nindividuals must renounce and abjure any allegiance to princes, sovereigns, etc.

Thus there are innumerable healths of the body; and the more we allow the unique and incomparable to raise its head again, and the more we abjure the dogma of the equality of men, the more must the concept of a normal health, along with a normal diet and the normal course of an illness, be abandoned by medical men.

Abjure definitions

verb

formally reject or disavow a formerly held belief, usually under pressure; "He retracted his earlier statements about his religion"; "She abjured her beliefs"

See also: recant forswear retract resile