Renounce
Part of speech: noun
Definition: An act of renouncing.
Part of speech: verb
Definition: To give up, resign, surrender. To cast off, repudiate. To decline further association with someone or something. To abandon, forsake, discontinue (an action, habit, intention, etc), sometimes by open declaration. To make a renunciation of something. To surrender formally some right or trust. (cards) To fail to follow suit; playing a card of a different suit when having no card of the suit led.
Example sentence: Experience is a revelation in the light of which we renounce our errors of youth for those of age.
Abdicate
Part of speech: verb
Definition: To surrender, renounce or relinquish, as sovereign power; to withdraw definitely from filling or exercising, as a high office, station, dignity; as, to abdicate the throne, the crown, the papacy.To reject; to cast off. - Bishop Joseph HallTo disclaim and expel from the family, as a father his child; to disown; to disinherit.To relinquish or renounce a throne, or other high office or dignity; to renounce sovereignty.
Example sentence: I am so anxious for you not to abdicate and I think the fact that you do is going to put me in the wrong light to the entire world because they will say that I could have prevented it.