Renege

June 2nd, 2009 by admin

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  1. Janet Morrison:

    December 4th, 2008 at 5:05 pm

    I’m more familiar with renege in the card playing sense – to fail to follow suit when you actually have a card of the required suit. I don’t think I’ve ever done this in bridge, but I’ve been caught in euchre a couple of times, when I forget that the jack of hearts is actually a diamond, say. Very tricky!

  2. Heretic’s Foundation VIII: Seeing Beneath Twelfth Night « Clyde Fitch Report:

    July 24th, 2009 at 4:21 pm

    [...] — an epistle — that causes him to give up his Christian faith and become a heathen “Yond gull Malvolio is turned heathen, a very renegado” (III.iii.66-7), renegado meaning a deserter of Christianity. Malvolio, whose name in Italian [...]

  3. Melissa:

    August 19th, 2009 at 8:15 pm

    Is it even correct to use the word ‘renege’ as a verb. If someone was to renege on a bet…..is that person a reneger? Is that a valid word in the English language?

  4. Melissa:

    August 19th, 2009 at 8:15 pm

    Sorry…let me phrase this better”
    Is it ever correct to use the word ‘renege’ as a NOUN? If someone was to renege on a bet…..is that person a reneger? Is that a valid word in the English language?

  5. una holden-cosgrove:

    September 21st, 2009 at 4:38 am

    The last 2 questions above are mine too. I want to use a noun to tell someone that he is reneging and call him a(reneger) but there HAS to be another word than reneger – it sounds so much more feeble than the verb

  6. Pierce:

    September 24th, 2009 at 12:47 am

    C’mon people…are you trying to figure out a way to say something that most likely would offend or piss someone off, hiding behind the literal, grammatical meaning of a word as a defense?

    Please, regardless of what definition or proper saying of the word “reneging” or whatever in spelling, you may use if for a while, but eventually get into a situation you may wish you hadn’t gotten into in the first place.

    Know what you say and understand what else that comes with it in after…

    -pierce

  7. Dianna:

    January 5th, 2012 at 7:45 pm

    I am suspecting that the word “renege” probably comes from renegotiate.

  8. simon:

    May 25th, 2012 at 6:43 pm

    I read a long time ago that the word renege came from a guy in the 20′s who pulled out of a deal with the u.s. gov

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