To refuse strongly and solemnly to own or acknowledge.
1 In the vanity typical of the insecure, they abnegate all foreign knowledge.
2 He could not abnegate his responsibility and cast it upon others.
3 Blindly to obey their commands would be to abnegate free agency and self-responsibility.
4 It is not the intention of the Myanmar government to apportion blame or to abnegate responsibility.
5 In those days the strong made no pretence to protect the weak, or to abnegate their natural power.
6 Neither of them had any means of telling the clock, and the concept of hours became meaningless, abnegate .
7 But for you to abnegate the right and power of resisting circumstances is to abdicate the sovereignty with which God has crowned you.
8 I have not the grand self - abnegating spirit necessary for such a work.
9 We all know overly devoted, self - abnegating men and women who are philanderers.
10 It attempted a purer morality, but abnegated obvious and pressing duties.
11 The old fellow's voice was strangely balanced between pathos and a peculiar self - abnegating humour.
12 Communism was an urban phenomenon - but it abnegated its "bourgeoisie" pedigree.
13 Besides, had she not voluntarily abnegated his authority and affection?
14 Almost every personal luxury and pleasure had been abnegated .
15 On such occasions, his bow of conscious merit abnegating praise was, I am told, wonderful to see.
16 Ever since that unfortunate incident with the gun, Peter Templeton seemed to have abnegated his paternal responsibilities entirely.
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