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What does abjure mean?

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  1. (transitive) To renounce upon oath; to forswear; to disavow. [First attested around 1350 to 1470.]
  2. (transitive, obsolete, historical) To cause one to renounce or recant. [First attested around 1350 to 1470.]
  3. (transitive) To reject with solemnity; to abandon forever; to repudiate; to disclaim. [First attested around 1350 to 1470.]
  4. (transitive) To abstain from; to avoid; to shun.
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The severity of the law was modified by a felon's right to abjure the realm if he succeeded in reaching the sanctuary of a church.
After a long and wearisome trial he was condemned on June 22, 1633, solemnly to abjure his scientific creed on bended knees.
If the accused would neither submit to trial nor abjure the realm after 40 days, he was starved into submission.
That was as impossible as to make them abjure by proclamation, their religion.
Thus, Muldrow cannot help but abjure spiritual claims to universal enlightenment.
I want to look closely at the first lines of the poem, in which Smith seems to abjure any claim of authority.

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