'abjure' in The Nurture Assumption: Why Children Turn Out the Way They Do, Revised and Updated | Bookmarker

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

It is middle-class European Americans who currently abjure the use of spankings and who favor instead the use of time-outs.

—p.294 by Judith Rich Harris

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