[ UK /ˈæbnɪɡˌe‍ɪt/ ]
VERB
  1. deny or renounce
    They abnegated their gods
  2. surrender (power or a position)
    The King abnegated his power to the ministers
  3. deny oneself (something); restrain, especially from indulging in some pleasure
    She denied herself wine and spirits
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How To Use abnegate In A Sentence

  • Whatever life and value this town ever possessed have now been abnegated.
  • When an undomesticated woman refuses to hide her sexuality, abnegates her maternity, she creates a force field of extraordinary energy.
  • He abnegated his right to speak for Terri when he entered a common law relationship with another woman, with whom he's fathered two children. Out, out, brief candle
  • The King abnegated his power to the ministers
  • In it, he informed me that George Grey had accepted my proposal of a once-off payment of $25,200 – on the condition that I would abnegate his word any further claims to alimony and/or other forms of financial maintenance. The Pursuit of Happiness
  • He was instead enthusiastic about the opportunity to obey and self-abnegate by using it. Vatican names chosen?
  • The Church was no doubt mortally offended by the way in which the Grail stories ignored or abnegated its authority and that of the apostolic succession. The Templar Revelation
  • With this state of mind, we abnegate ourselves and worship the contents of our experience, adding title after title to his or her name. The Gelug-Kagyu Tradition of Mahamudra ��� 2 The Preliminary Practices
  • They have abnegated all morality and all fellow feeling for the rest of mankind.
  • It is the Romantic-humanist heresy which holds that we should nurture our egos rather than abnegate them.
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