# (v. i.) To make renunciation. # (v. t.) To cast off or reject deliberately; to disown; to dismiss; to forswear. # (v. i.) To decline formally, as an executor or a person entitled to letters of administration, to take out probate or letters. # (n.) Act of renouncing. # (v. t.) To disclaim having a card of (the suit led) by playing a card of another suit. # (v. t.) To declare against; to reject or decline formally; to refuse to own or acknowledge as belonging to one; to disclaim; as, to renounce a title to land or to a throne.