Abjuration: alternatives and connections

leave someone who needs or counts on you; leave in the lurch; "The mother deserted her children"

The act of abdicating; the renunciation of a high office, dignity, or trust, by its holder; commonly the voluntary renunciation of sov…

To renounce upon oath; to forswear; to disavow; as, to abjure allegiance to a prince. To abjure the realm, is to swear to abandon it f…

Taken by adoption; taken up as one's own; as, an adopted son, citizen, country, word.

written declaration made under oath; a written statement sworn to be true before someone legally authorized to administer an oath

A solemn declaration made under the penalties of perjury, by persons who conscientiously decline taking an oath, which declaration is…

A measure by the ell; formerly a sworn officer in England, whose duty was to inspect and measure woolen cloth, and fix upon it a seal.

A member of that party, among the Scotch seceders, which asserted the lawfulness of the burgess oath (in which burgesses profess "the…

exploitation by a stronger country of weaker one; the use of the weaker country's resources to strengthen and enrich the stronger coun…

One who swears or is sworn with others; one bound by oath with others; a compurgator.

Pertaining to the regions remote from a city; rural; rustic; as, a country life; a country town; the country party, as opposed to city.

An annual tax formerly laid on the English nation to buy off the ravages of Danish invaders, or to maintain forces to oppose them. It…

To leave (especially something which one should stay by and support); to leave in the lurch; to abandon; to forsake; -- implying blame…

leave someone who needs or counts on you; leave in the lurch; "The mother deserted her children"

The act dismissing or sending away; permission to leave; leave to depart; dismissal; as, the dismission of the grand jury.

A band of sworn soldiers; a division of the Spartan army ranging from twenty-five to thirty-six men, bound together by oath.

Forced separation from one's native country; expulsion from one's home by the civil authority; banishment; sometimes, voluntary separa…

The act of banishing, or the state of banishment; especially, the forsaking of one's own country with a renunciation of allegiance.