renounce

to renounce a title to land or to a throne

This world I do renounce, and in your sights

Shake patiently my great affliction off.

His son Sidhartha had renounced material life and gone forth in search of enlightment. He received enlightment under a Bodhi tree at Gaya and became Buddha. Ashoka visited Gaya along with Upagupta and had darshan of Sambodhi.

He of my sons who fails to make it good, / By one rebellious act renounces to my blood.

Dryden died without a will, and his widow having renounced, his son Charles administered on June 10.