abnegate
verb (used with object)
to refuse or deny oneself (some rights, conveniences, etc.); reject; renounce.
abnegated
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past participleof abnegate.past participle
A verb form used in perfect and passive verb constructions and that can also function as a modifier.
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past tense formof abnegate.past tense
Used to describe completed actions or previous habitual actions.
abnegateverb (used with object)to refuse or deny oneself (some rights, conveniences, etc.); reject; renounce.
Example Sentences
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It’s too late for a change, Clinton abnegated, but, it’s misleading to readers and could have lasting consequences to not address this.
From New York Times ● Nov. 13, 2016
But to go on that trip, Mort abnegated her parental responsibilities and priorities, behaving in her own, and not her children’s, best interests.
From Slate ● Sep. 29, 2014
With us descendants of the Puritans especially, these weather-competitions supply the abnegated excitement of the race-course.
From My Garden Acquaintance by James Russell Lowell
But he had so long abnegated the exercise of his rights and privileges, sinking the noble in the mechanician, that men had forgotten the proper style in which they should address him.
From After London Or, Wild England by Richard Jefferies
Almost every personal luxury and pleasure had been abnegated.
From A Lost Leader by E. Phillips (Edward Phillips) Oppenheim
