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

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the early writings, which were disparaged by his Party and which he had himself abjured

on Lukács

—p.151 Reconciliation under Duress (151) by Theodor W. Adorno
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6 years, 5 months ago


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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6 years, 6 months ago


Localism, in all its forms, represents an attempt to abjure the problems and politics of scale involved in large systems such as the global economy, politics and the environment.

—p.43 Why Aren’t We Winning? A Critique of Today’s Left (25) by Alex Williams, Nick Srnicek
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6 years, 7 months ago


a decision to abjure finding out more

—p.20 Introduction: Habits of Mind (1) by Jon Baskin
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3 years, 3 months ago


abjure the temptation to tie in one's moral responsibilities to other people with one's relation to whatever idiosyncratic things or persons one loves with all one's heart and soul and mind

—p.13 Trotsky and the Wild Orchids (3) by Richard M. Rorty
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6 years, 7 months ago

He is in a mood of wry abjuration

—p.132 The Pragmatist's Progress: Umberto Eco on Interpretation (131) by Richard M. Rorty
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6 years, 6 months ago


Abjuring friendship, Linda had plowed through the English major requirements in two years.

—p.76 by Tony Tulathimutte
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6 years, 7 months ago


I urge your watchers, your seminar attendees, to abjure this habit

—p.115 The interview (23) by David Foster Wallace
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6 years, 6 months ago


We can abjure the complicity demanded of us

—p.48 On Social Saidsm (17) by China Miéville
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2 years, 4 months ago


challenged the new states to abjure the divisive techniques of colonial administrators as well as transform cultural differences from a liability to an asset

—p.217 New Delhi (207) by Vijay Prashad
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5 years, 3 months ago

The United Nations and its democratization became the proxi­mate goals of NAM, which had therefore abjured any attempt to over­throw, or even jujitsu, both superpowers.

—p.96 Belgrade (95) by Vijay Prashad
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5 years, 3 months ago


Contemporary attempts to revive the communist hypothesis typically abjure state control and look to other forms of collective social organisation to displace market forces and capital accumulation as the basis for organising production and distribution

—p.225 What is to be Done? And Who is Going to Do It? (215) by David Harvey
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6 years, 6 months ago


we have to be careful while doing so not to abjure the very sense of agency that we would need to sustain such a revolt

—p.50 Treat Yourself (41) by Apoorva Tadepalli
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3 years, 10 months ago


Intertwined with the abjuration of the body in Bresson’s films is the vexing problem of suicide: If the body enslaves the soul, why not destroy the body and be free?

—p.89 Bresson (57) by Paul Schrader
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2 years, 7 months ago


the country had abjured all available weapons for combating recession

—p.57 Argentinidad (53) by Benjamin Kunkel
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4 years, 11 months ago


What’s less well understood is why so many others took the opportunity to abjure some of Marxism’s most hallowed principles

—p.149 On Endnotes (149) missing author
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4 years, 4 months ago