Abjure:
verb (used with object), ab·jured, ab·jur·ing.
- to renounce, repudiate, or retract, especially with formal solemnity; recant:
to abjure one’s errors.- to renounce or give up under oath; forswear:
to abjure allegiance.- to avoid or shun. [Dictionary.com]
I don’t believe I’ve ever used that word. Noted in “As insurrectionists turn into snitches for federal prosecutors, circle tightens around conspirators,” David Neiwert, Daily Kos:
Another indictee—Thomas Robertson, then an active officer with the Rocky Mount, Virginia, police department, who entered the Capitol with a colleague and later boasted about it to his colleagues on Facebook, claiming he had broken no laws—who had been granted pretrial release now faces a revocation of that release this week after FBI agents discovered that he has purchased an arsenal of over 30 guns and a stockpile of ammunition in the weeks after his arrest, and despite release conditions requiring him to abjure all weapons. Robertson and his colleague, Jacob Fracker, were both fired from the police force after their arrests.
