renay

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It's a recognised English word, but it isn't in the official NASPA Scrabble word list.

Scrabble points
8
Words With Friends
8
Letters
5
Pronunciation
/ɹɪˈneɪ/

Definition of renay

3 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

verb

  1. (obsolete, transitive)To renounce (one’s faith or god), to apostasize from.
    “[…] 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, […]”
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verb

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

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Etymology

From Middle English reneye, from Old French reneier, French renier, renier, from Latin re- (“re-”) + negare (“to deny”). See renegade. Doublet of renege and related to deny.

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