The phrase "about to renounce" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when indicating that someone is on the verge of giving up or formally rejecting something, such as a belief, claim, or position.
Example: "She was about to renounce her citizenship after years of living abroad."
Alternatives: "on the verge of rejecting" or "ready to give up".
Is he about to renounce poetry?... Must he become miserable again in order to write?" Yet the suspense attached to this stalled life is real, at least for any reader who has himself sought to find his or her voice and material amid the crosscurrents of late modernism.
It's a hoot: despite his search for tranquillity and new horizons, he's not about to renounce his ballet technique anytime soon.
The robe commemorates the act of the Buddha's mother, who, on hearing that he was about to renounce worldly life, wove his first mendicant robes in one night.
A former Ku Klux Klan leader tells Bardem about his decision to renounce his racist past.
She froze during her opening remarks, then pointedly ignored multiple reporters' questions about why she had refused to renounce her previous statement about "beheadings in the desert".
As empty as Mr. Romney's remarks were about Iran, his refusal to renounce waterboarding is disturbing.
Romney has shown the same instincts as Eduardo Saverin, a co-founder of Facebook with a net worth of about $2 billion, who chose to renounce his United States citizenship and park his money elsewhere rather than pay American capital gains taxes.
Mr. Kerry responded that the veterans had decided that the best way to "wake the country up" about the war was to "renounce the symbols which this country gives, which supposedly reinforces all the things that they have done, and that was the medals themselves".
Obviously, it is not about obliging Member States to renounce their national competencies, but if they have agreed to expand citizenship to a supranational framework, it would be logical that the Member States themselves guaranteed to one another that it would be done in such a way.
What about Muslims — were they free to renounce their faith?
"I hope that the pope's words will inspire our president and Congress to demonstrate a like commitment to speaking the truth about the Armenian genocide and to renounce Turkey's campaign of concealment and denial".
