abnegating
- present participle of abnegate.
Example Sentences
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Historian Theodore Roszak wades into "The Complacencies of the Academy: 1967" with a spirited attack on today's professors for abnegating their traditional responsibility as philosophes.
From Time Magazine Archive
Compare a Botticelli Madonna, with all her wounded and abnegating sensuality, with a Hans Memling Madonna, whose soul is pure and only reverential.
From Fantasia of the Unconscious by Lawrence, D. H. (David Herbert)
The Emperor seemed to appreciate perfectly the charms of this angelic woman, whose gentle and self- abnegating character made a profound impression on me.
From Recollections of the Private Life of Napoleon — Volume 05 by Clark, Walter
"No, I'll be hanged if I am," protested the abnegating Peckover.
From A Poached Peerage by Magnay, William
On such occasions, his bow of conscious merit abnegating praise was, I am told, wonderful to see.
From Guy Livingstone; or, 'Thorough' by Lawrence, George A. (George Alfred)
