อนุทิน 118943

abjure verb tr.:

1. To avoid or abstain from.
2. To renounce under oath.

"Many modern writers abjure the power of stories in their work, banish them to the suburbs of literature, drive them out toward the lower pastures of the lesser moons."
Pat Conroy; Interpreting the World Through Story; The Writer (Waukesha, Wisconsin); Jun 2012