renay

verb /ɹɪˈneɪ/

1. To renounce (one’s faith or god), to apostasize from.

   obsolete, transitive

   […] 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. To take back, to recant (something one says or believes).

   obsolete, transitive

3. To reject, to deny the truth of (a statement).

   obsolete, transitive

Where it comes from

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.

Adapted from the Wiktionary entry renay (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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