abnegate
verb (used with object)
to refuse or deny oneself (some rights, conveniences, etc.); reject; renounce.
abnegating
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present participleof abnegate.present participle
A verb form that is used in progressive verb constructions and may also function as a modifier or a gerund.
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
“It’s surely not abnegating common sense just to—to recognize honesty.”
From The Dust Flower by Hibberd V. B. (Hibberd Van Buren) Kline
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 D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence
"No, I'll be hanged if I am," protested the abnegating Peckover.
From A Poached Peerage by William Magnay
Never abnegating her own proper independence, but always genially preserving it, and what belongs to it—cooking, washing, child-nursing, house-tending—she beams sunshine out of all these duties, and makes them illustrious.
From Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy by Walt Whitman
