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Meaning of renay | Babel Free

Verb CEFR B1
/ɹɪˈneɪ/

Definitions

  1. To renounce (one’s faith or god), to apostasize from.
    obsolete, transitive
  2. To take back, to recant (something one says or believes).
    obsolete, transitive
  3. To reject, to deny the truth of (a statement).
    obsolete, transitive

Examples

“[…] Mammolukes and Geniſaries about yͤ Turk and Sowdã [Sowdan, i.e., Sudan], haue vſed to chriſten their children of purpoſe, that by the renayĩg [renaying] of their fayth, after, they might be made Mammolukes or Geniſaries, as theyr fathers were, and may be had the more in eſtimacion & fauour about the greate Turke, […]”

CEFR level

B1
Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.

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