heal, mend, reunite, secure, sew, solder, stitch, unite, weld. join,
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RENOUNCE.
Synonyms:
abandon, disavow, disown, recant, repudiate, abjure, discard, forswear, refuse, retract, deny, disclaim, recall,
reject, revoke.
Abjure,
discard,
forswear,
recall,
recant,
renounce,
retract, and
revoke, like
abandon, imply some previous
connection.
Renounce (L.
re, back, and
nuntio, bear a message) is to declare against and give up formally and
definitively; as, to
renounce the pomps and vanities of the world.
Recant (L.
re, back, and
canto, sing) is to
take back or
deny formally and publicly, as a belief that one has held or professed.
Retract (L.
re, back, and
traho, draw) is to take back something that one has said as not true or as what one is not ready to maintain; as,
to
retract a charge or accusation; one
recants what was especially his own, he
retracts what
was directed
against another.
Repudiate (L.
re, back, or away, and
pudeo, feel shame) is primarily to
renounce as shameful,
hence to divorce, as a wife; thus in general to put away with emphatic and determined repulsion; as, to
repudiate a debt. To
deny is to affirm to be not true or not binding; as, to
deny a statement or a relationship; or
to refuse to grant as something requested; as, his mother could not
deny him what he desired. To
discard is to
cast away as useless or worthless; thus, one
discards a worn garment; a coquette
discards a lover.
Revoke (L.
re, back, and
voco, call), etymologically the exact
equivalent of the English recall, is to take back something
given or granted; as, to
revoke a command, a will, or a grant;
recall may be used in the exact sense of
revoke,
but is often applied to persons, as
revoke is not; we
recall a messenger and
revoke the order with which he
was charged.
Abjure (L.
ab, away, and
juro, swear) is etymologically the exact equivalent of the Saxon
forswear, signifying to put away formally and under oath, as an error, heresy, or evil practise,
or a condemned
and detested person. A man
abjures his religion,
recants his belief,
abjures or
renounces his allegiance,
repudiates another's claim,
renounces his own,
retracts a false statement. A person may
deny,
disavow,
disclaim,
disown what has been truly or falsely imputed to him or supposed to be his. He may
deny his
signature,
disavow the act of his agent,
disown his child; he may
repudiate a just claim or a base suggestion. A
native of the United States can not
abjure or
renounce allegiance to the Queen of England, but will promptly
deny or
repudiate it. Compare ABANDON.
Antonyms:
acknowledge, assert, cherish, defend, maintain, proclaim, uphold, advocate, avow, claim, hold, own, retain,
vindicate.
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REPENTANCE.
Synonyms:
compunction, contriteness, regret,
self-condemnation, contrition, penitence, remorse, sorrow.
Regret is
sorrow for any painful or annoying matter. One is moved with
penitence for wrong-doing. To speak
of
regret for a fault of our own marks it as slighter than one regarding which we should express
penitence.
Repentance is
sorrow for sin with
self-condemnation, and complete turning from the sin.
Penitence is
transient, and may involve no change of character or conduct. There may be
sorrow without
repentance, as for
consequences only, but not
repentance without
sorrow.
Compunction is a momentary sting of conscience, in
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view either of a past or of a contemplated act.
Contrition is a subduing
sorrow for sin,
as against the divine
holiness and love.
Remorse is, as its derivation indicates, a biting or gnawing back of guilt upon the heart,
with no turning of heart from the sin, and no suggestion of divine forgiveness.
Antonyms:
approval, content, obduracy, self-complacency, comfort, hardness, obstinacy, self-congratulation,
complacency, impenitence, self-approval, stubbornness.
Prepositions:
Repentance
of or
in heart, or
from the heart; repentance
for sins;
before or
toward God;
unto life.
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REPORT.
Synonyms:
account,
narrative, rehearsal, rumor, story, description, recital, relation, statement, tale. narration, record,
Account carries the idea of a commercial summary. A
statement is definite, confined to essentials and properly
to matters within the personal knowledge of the one who states them; as, an ante-mortem
statement. A
narrative is a somewhat extended and embellished
account of events in order of time,
ordinarily with a view
to please or entertain. A
description gives especial scope to the pictorial element. A
report (L.
re, back, and
porto, bring), as its etymology implies, is something brought back, as by one sent to obtain information, and
may be concise and formal or highly descriptive and dramatic. Compare ALLEGORY; HISTORY; RECORD.
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REPROOF.
Synonyms:
admonition, chiding, disapproval, reprimand, animadversion, comment, objurgation, reproach, blame,
condemnation, rebuke, reproval, censure, criticism,
reflection, upbraiding. check, denunciation, reprehension,
Blame,
censure, and
disapproval may either be felt or uttered;
comment,
criticism,
rebuke,
reflection,
reprehension, and
reproof are always expressed. The same is true of
admonition and
animadversion.
Comment and
criticism may be favorable as well as censorious; they imply no superiority or authority on the
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