All 50 Uses of

abnegate

in

Divergent

But she must hide that beauty in Abnegation.†
Chpt 1

If he wasn't Abnegation, I'm sure the girls at school would stare at him.†
Chpt 1

Five years ago, volunteer construction workers from Abnegation repaved some of the roads.†
Chpt 1

Candor values honesty, but our faction, Abnegation, values selflessness.†
Chpt 1

I could tell him I've been worried for weeks about what the aptitude test will tell me—Abnegation, Candor, Erudite, Amity, or Dauntless?†
Chpt 1

This sort of thing has been happening to others in my faction for months now—the Erudite have been releasing antagonistic reports about Abnegation, and it has begun to affect the way we relate at school.†
Chpt 1

The test administrators are mostly Abnegation volunteers, although there is an Erudite in one of the testing rooms and a Dauntless in another to test those of us from Abnegation, because the rules state that we can't be tested by someone from our own faction.†
Chpt 2

The test administrators are mostly Abnegation volunteers, although there is an Erudite in one of the testing rooms and a Dauntless in another to test those of us from Abnegation, because the rules state that we can't be tested by someone from our own faction.†
Chpt 2

At the Abnegation table, we sit quietly and wait.†
Chpt 2

An Abnegation volunteer speaks the next round of names.†
Chpt 2

Two from Dauntless, two from Erudite, two from Amity, two from Candor, and then: "From Abnegation: Susan Black and Beatrice Prior."†
Chpt 2

"Never met a curious Abnegation before," she says, raising her eyebrows at me.†
Chpt 2

My curiosity is a mistake, a betrayal of Abnegation values.†
Chpt 2

People who tell the truth are the Candor …. and the Abnegation," she says.†
Chpt 3

On the one hand, you threw yourself on the dog rather than let it attack the little girl, which is an Abnegation-oriented response …. but on the other, when the man told you that the truth would save him, you still refused to tell it.†
Chpt 3

Not an Abnegation-oriented response.†
Chpt 3

Yes and no. My conclusion," she explains, "is that you display equal aptitude for Abnegation, Dauntless, and Erudite.†
Chpt 3

Abnegation discourages anything done strictly for my own enjoyment,
Chpt 3 *

abnegation = the group of people that practice self-denial

editor's notes: Outside of this novel, abnegation is not capitalized and is rarely used. But you may as well learn it since it is an important concept in this novel where the word is used 163 times. When seen outside of the novel, it means "renunciation or rejection--often of comforts or luxuries" and is often seen as "self-abnegation".

The Abnegation volunteer agency my mother works for is responsible for most of those renovations.†
Chpt 3

When I look at the Abnegation lifestyle as an outsider, I think it's beautiful.†
Chpt 3

Just past the Abnegation sector of the city is the stretch of building skeletons and broken sidewalks that I now walk through.†
Chpt 3

I REACH MY street five minutes before I usually do, according to my watch—which is the only adornment Abnegation allows, and only because it's practical.†
Chpt 4

Maybe it's better that Abnegation wants me to suppress it.†
Chpt 4

Maybe if I fight to make Abnegation work, my act will turn into reality.†
Chpt 4

He and I have been exchanging looks for the past year as Susan and Caleb flirt in the tentative way known only to the Abnegation.†
Chpt 4

In an instant I can see him living the same kind of life my father did: staying in Abnegation, learning a trade, marrying Susan, and having a family.†
Chpt 4

Not every Abnegation family is religious, but my father says we should try not to see those differences because they will only divide us.†
Chpt 4

The city is ruled by a council of fifty people, composed entirely of representatives from Abnegation, because our faction is regarded as incorruptible, due to our commitment to selflessness.†
Chpt 4

"It said," my father says, "that Marcus's violence and cruelty toward his son is the reason his son chose Dauntless instead of Abnegation."†
Chpt 4

Few people who are born into Abnegation choose to leave it.†
Chpt 4

It will require a great act of selflessness to choose Abnegation, or a great act of courage to choose Dauntless, and maybe just choosing one over the other will prove that I belong.†
Chpt 4

I could be subsumed into Abnegation's hive mind, projecting always outward.†
Chpt 5

My father holds the door open on the twentieth floor and stands like a sentry as every Abnegation walks past him.†
Chpt 5

The responsibility to conduct the ceremony rotates from faction to faction each year, and this year is Abnegation's.†
Chpt 5

Each one contains a substance that represents each faction: gray stones for Abnegation, water for Erudite, earth for Amity, lit coals for Dauntless, and glass for Candor.†
Chpt 5

Those who blamed selfishness made Abnegation.†
Chpt 5

Abnegation has fulfilled our need for selfless leaders in government; Candor has provided us with trustworthy and sound leaders in law; Erudite has supplied us with intelligent teachers and researchers; Amity has given us understanding counselors and caretakers; and Dauntless provides us with protection from threats both within and without.†
Chpt 5

My brother, born for Abnegation, Erudite?†
Chpt 5

The Abnegation, normally so placid, speak to one another in tense whispers and glare across the room at the faction that has become our enemy.†
Chpt 5

Halfway to the bowls, I am sure that I will choose Abnegation.†
Chpt 5

I watch myself grow into a woman in Abnegation robes, marrying Susan's brother, Robert, volunteering on the weekends, the peace of routine, the quiet nights spent in front of the fireplace, the certainty that I will be safe, and if not good enough, better than I am now.†
Chpt 5

If Caleb wasn't fit for Abnegation, how can I be?†
Chpt 5

Dauntless fire and Abnegation stones are both on my left, one in front of my shoulder and one behind.†
Chpt 5

I thought only the Abnegation used the stairs.†
Chpt 6

Abnegation discourages anything done strictly for my own enjoyment, and that is what this is: my lungs burning, my muscles aching, the fierce pleasure of a flat-out sprint.†
Chpt 6

The Abnegation greeted one another by bowing heads, a sign of respect.†
Chpt 6

Stiff" is slang for Abnegation, and I'm the only one here.†
Chpt 6

Of those, I am the only Abnegation transfer, and there are no Amity transfers.†
Chpt 7

A memory of the orderly Abnegation streets appears in my mind: a line of people on the right passing a line of people on the left, small smiles and inclined heads and silence.†
Chpt 7

My odds, as the smallest initiate, as the only Abnegation transfer, are not good.†
Chpt 7

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Definition:

(abnegate)
to renounce or reject
The 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

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