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Meanings of abnegate in English

To refuse strongly and solemnly to own or acknowledge.

      Usage of abnegate in English
      1
      In the vanity typical of the insecure, they abnegate all foreign knowledge.
      After the Rain : how the West lost the East
      2
      He could not abnegate his responsibility and cast it upon others.
      The Trial and Death of Jesus Christ: A Devotional History of Our...
      3
      Blindly to obey their commands would be to abnegate free agency and self-responsibility.
      Fairy Fingers / A Novel
      4
      It is not the intention of the Myanmar government to apportion blame or to abnegate responsibility.
      The Guardian
      5
      In those days the strong made no pretence to protect the weak, or to abnegate their natural power.
      Hodge and His Masters
      6
      Neither of them had any means of telling the clock, and the concept of hours became meaningless, abnegate.
      The gunslinger
      7
      But for you to abnegate the right and power of resisting circumstances is to abdicate the sovereignty with which God has crowned you.
      Expositions of Holy Scripture: St. Luke
      8
      I have not the grand self-abnegating spirit necessary for such a work.
      Not Pretty, but Precious; And Other Short Stories
      9
      We all know overly devoted, self-abnegating men and women who are philanderers.
      Feminist dot com
      10
      It attempted a purer morality, but abnegated obvious and pressing duties.
      Beacon Lights of History, Volume 3 part 1: The Middle Ages
      11
      The old fellow's voice was strangely balanced between pathos and a peculiar self-abnegating humour.
      The Slave of the Lamp
      12
      Communism was an urban phenomenon - but it abnegated its "bourgeoisie" pedigree.
      The Belgian Curtain: Europe after Communism
      13
      Besides, had she not voluntarily abnegated his authority and affection?
      Selected Stories of Bret Harte
      14
      Almost every personal luxury and pleasure had been abnegated.
      A Lost Leader
      15
      On such occasions, his bow of conscious merit abnegating praise was, I am told, wonderful to see.
      Guy Livingstone; or, 'Thorough'
      16
      Ever since that unfortunate incident with the gun, Peter Templeton seemed to have abnegated his paternal responsibilities entirely.
      Mistress of the game
      Abnegate through the time