'abjure' in Against Interpretation and Other Essays | Bookmarker

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(verb) to renounce upon oath / (verb) to reject solemnly / (verb) to abstain from; avoid

Suspense, shocks, surprises are mostly abjured in favor of a steady, inexorable plot.

—p.216 The imagination of disaster (209) by Susan Sontag

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