abjured
/əbˈdʒʊəd/adjective, verb
abjured is an adjective meaning “Having been renounced, forsworn or rejected” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled A-B-J-U-R-E-D and has 2 syllables, and it appears about once in every 22 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does abjured mean?
adjective
- 1
Having been renounced, forsworn or rejected.
verb
- 1
simple past and past participle of abjure
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce abjured?
- UK /əbˈdʒʊəd/
Abjured has 2 syllables (counted from the pronunciation).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-ca-abjured.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of abjured
- more abjured comparative
- most abjured superlative
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is abjured?
Abjured appears about once in every 22 million words in written English, the 143,405th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).