how to pronounce renounce

/ɹɪˈnaʊns/

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renounce is pronounced in two syllables

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An example use of renounce in a speech by a native speaker of british english:

“… his son would not renounce art in favor …”

meanings of renounce

verb:

To decline further association with someone or something, disown.
To fail to follow suit; playing a card of a different suit when having no card of the suit led.
To surrender formally some right or trust.
To give up, resign, surrender, atsake.
To abandon, forsake, discontinue (an action, habit, intention, etc), sometimes by open declaration.
To make a renunciation of something.
To cast off, repudiate.

noun:

An act of renouncing.

renounce frequency in english - C2+ level of CEFR

the word renounce occurs in english on average 1.6 times per one million words; this frequency warrants it to be in the study list for C2+ level of language mastery according to CEFR, the Common European Framework of Reference.

topics renounce can be related to

it is hard to perfectly classify words into specific topics since each word can have many context of its use, but our machine-learning models believe that renounce can be often used in the following areas:

1) communication, information, and media;

2) people, society, and culture;