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Abdicate or disown (8)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

renounce

I believe this is a double definition.

'abdicate' is the first definition.
(I know that abdicate is a more specific form of renounce)

'disown' is the second definition.
(I know that disown can be written as renounce)

(Other definitions for renounce that I've seen before include "Foreswear, relinquish" , "Reject, perhaps the devil" , "Publicly give up rights" , "Abdicate or disown" , "Decide to forgo" .)

I've seen this clue in The Irish Times.
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