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abnegate
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    She abnegated those rights when she signed the agreement.
    abnegated = voluntarily gave up
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    But she must hide that beauty in Abnegation.  (source)
    Abnegation = in this novel, the group of people that practice self-denial
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    Jose Arcadio Buendia made no attempt to console her, completely absorbed in his tactical experiments with the abnegation of a scientist and even at the risk of his own life.  (source)
    abnegation = self-denial or self-sacrifice
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    He became a professor in Geneva (where there are no demonstrations), and in a burst of abnegation (in womanless, paradeless solitude) he published several scholarly books, all of which received considerable acclaim.  (source)
    abnegation = self-denial of comforts
    standard suffix: The suffix "-tion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in action, education, and observation.
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    But one doesn't abnegate by keeping one's self pure and proud of its own purity.  (source)
    abnegate = renounce personal ego
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    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.  (source)
    abnegating = self-denial of luxuries
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    Remorse ....abnegation ...self-sacrifice ...the desire for purification — all pressing upon her.  (source)
    abnegation = self-denial or self-sacrifice
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    So that all the while, and not unlike her brother Clyde, her thoughts as well as her emotions were wandering here and there—to love, to comfort—to things which in the main had little, if anything, to do with any self-abnegating and self-immolating religious theory.†  (source)
    abnegating = renouncing (rejecting)
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    For if in the 1940s, long before the dawn of our liberation, the ancient chivalry still prevailed and the plastic June Allysons of a boy's dreams were demigoddesses with whom one might at most, to use the sociologists' odious idiom, "pet to climax," I carried self-abnegation to its mad limit and with my beloved Maria did not even try to cop a feel, as they used to say in those days.  (source)
    abnegation = self-denial
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    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.†  (source)
    abnegating = renouncing (rejecting)
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    It was probably just peaceful despair and relief at final and complete abnegation, now that Judith was about to immolate the frustration's vicarious recompense into the living fairy tale.  (source)
    abnegation = renunciation of luxuries and old way of life
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    All right, she would go with him—again she felt the beauty of the night vividly in one moment of complete response and abnegation—all right, then—but now she was unexpectedly free and Dick turned his back sighing.  (source)
    abnegation = sacrifice of desires or will to that of someone else
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    It was the girls she thought of, the young girls with their bare shoulders, she herself having always been a wisp of a creature, with her thin hair and meagre profile; though now, past fifty, there was beginning to shine through some mild beam, something purified into distinction by years of self-abnegation but obscured again, perpetually, by her distressing gentility, her panic fear, which arose from three hundred pounds' income, and her weaponless state (she could not earn a penny) and it made her timid, and more and more disqualified year by year to meet well-dressed people who did this sort of thing every night of the season,  (source)
    abnegation = self-denial or self-sacrifice
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