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.