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Definition
to renounce or rejectThe exact meaning of abnegate can depend upon its context. For example:
- "to abnegate his responsibilities as a father" — to reject or ignore a duty
- "to practice self-abnegation" — to deny oneself (voluntarily give something up such as a luxury)
- "to abnegate her faith" — to reject a belief
- "to abnegate her legal rights" — to give up a claim, title, or position of power
- The monk practices self-abnegation.
abnegation = voluntarily giving something up (in this case, luxuries)
- no one in Abnegation would be so selfish;Veronica Roth -- Insurgent
- Abnegation discourages anything done strictly for my own enjoyment,Veronica Roth -- Divergent
- Envy, jealousy, abnegation, equanimity.James Joyce -- Ulysses
- Two tears slid down her fallen cheeks, in and out of the myriad coruscations ofimmolation and abnegation and time.William Faulkner -- The Sound and the Fury
- But self-abnegation is the higher road.Thomas Hardy -- Jude the Obscure
- It was the furthest limit of self-abnegation, at least so he interpreted it.Fyodor Dostoyevsky -- Crime and Punishment
- He was a picture of abnegation.Jules Verne -- A Journey to the Center of the Earth
- Not with more of self-abnegation will the latter keep his vows of monastic obedience than the former his vows of allegiance to martial duty.Herman Melville -- Billy Budd
- Remorse .... abnegation ... self-sacrifice ... the desire for purification — all pressing upon her.John Wyndham -- The Chrysalids
- But one doesn't abnegate by keeping one's self pure and proud of its own purity.Ayn Rand -- The Fountainhead
- "Pain?" said his father, his rugged face shining in the ardour of self-abnegation.Thomas Hardy -- Tess of the d'Urbervilles
- They went on, in steady single file, the two backs in their rigid abnegation of all compromise more alike than actual blood could have made them.William Faulkner -- Light in August
- CHAPTER FORTY-TWO ALL ALONE It was easy to promise self-abnegation when self was wrapped up in another, and heart and soul were purified by a sweet example.Louisa May Alcott -- Little Women
- And, withal, a life of privation, isolation, abnegation, chastity, with never a diversion.Victor Hugo -- Les Miserables
- 'That's very praiseworthy self-abnegation,' Pavel Petrovitch declared, drawing himself up, and throwing his head back.Ivan Turgenev -- Fathers and Sons
- When you choose an elder, you renounce your own will and yield it to him in complete submission, complete self-abnegation.Fyodor Dostoyevsky -- The Brothers Karamazov
- After his discharge from the hospital, he returned to the tiny Noborimachi chapel he had helped build, and there he continued his self-abnegating pastoral life.John Hersey -- Hiroshima
- He shook in a self-abnegating way, as one who shook for Tellson and Co. "Can I do anything for you, Mr. Stryver?" asked Mr. Lorry, in his business character.Charles Dickens -- A Tale of Two Cities
- The English have not understood and cannot understand the self-abnegation of our Emperor who wants nothing for himself, but only desires the good of mankind.Leo Tolstoy -- War and Peace
abnegation = the group of people that practice self-denial
abnegation = the group of people that practice self-denial