abnegate
verb (used with object)
to refuse or deny oneself (some rights, conveniences, etc.); reject; renounce.
abnegates
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present tense formof abnegate (3rd person singular).present tense
Used to describe things happening now or regularly.
Example Sentences
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Abnegā′tion, renunciation; Ab′negator, one who abnegates or renounces.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various
Briefly, the nature of Death is to be pallid: therefore Death, in blushing, abnegates his very nature, and almost ceases to be Death.
From Adonais by Percy Bysshe Shelley
I was lifted up into the higher love that worships and abnegates.
From Ghetto Tragedies by Israel Zangwill
