TO RENOUNCE. To give up a right; for example, an executor may renounce the
right of administering the estate of the testator; a widow the right to
administer to her intestate husband's estate.
2. There are some rights which a person cannot renounce; as, for
example, to plead the act of limitation. Before a person can become a
citizen of the United States he must renounce all titles of nobility. Vide
Naturalization; To Repudiate.