Word: foreswear
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...prepared myself to foreswear cigarette ash on Ash Wednesday, I looked forward to regaining some respect. I started smoking while working as a doorman over the summer. A sandwich and two cigarettes made for the ideal half-hour break. So, as a smoker for the last eight months, I grew used to hearing my habit reviled as "filthy." Even worse, while I walked across the Yard, some of my fellow students would feign coughs near me. Since the dangers of second-hand smoke don't extend to wide open spaces, I understood that they were simply passing judgment...
Ravenal's "modest proposal for ending Armageddon" also includes firm U.S. commitments not to bomb civilian targets and to foreswear the first-strike use of nuclear weapons. The result, he argues would be a lessening of the probability of an American first strike, accompanied by our own diminished vulnerability...
...World Liberation Front. When derisive radicals dubbed them "Jesus Freaks," the Berkeley group adopted the epithet as its own, and now shares it with the movement. The Front publishes perhaps the best of the new underground Christian newspapers, Right On. In psychedelic typography, the paper urges its readers to foreswear promiscuity, drugs and alcohol...
...often here writers or directors claim integrity for works which have none, thereby forcing an appraisal which assumes precisely what they are trying to achieve and is inaccurate or confused to the extent that the assumption is. Still, to beg of the responsibility of proper formulations is to foreswear the possibility of creating more than suggestive phrases...
...seems that the choice is up to the woman whether she wants to foreswear the traditions inherent in her id and go forth to do battle in the male jungle or whether she wants to accept her sex and the duties that go with it," Alicia Patterson Guggenheim, editor and publisher of Newsday, declared...