All 50 Uses of
abnegate
in
Allegiant
- But Edith is an Abnegation name, and my father's relatives must have been Erudite, so ...
p. 1.9abnegation = in this novel, the group of people that practice self-denial
- I was Abnegation.
p. 14.2
- I learned that habit from her—I used to chew my skin raw as I waited for my father to come home, unsure which version of him I would encounter, the one the Abnegation trusted and revered, or the one whose hands struck me.
p. 19.8
- It's easy for me to lie to everyone else, but it's more difficult to lie to her, the only person who knew all the secrets of our Abnegation house, the violence contained within its walls.
p. 21.2
- For a moment I see her in Abnegation gray, her thick hair bound back with a dozen pins, sitting across the dinner table from me.
p. 22.5
- I wonder what the Abnegation treat would have been, if they had one.
p. 30.7 *abnegation = in this novel, the group of people that practice self-denialeditor'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 93 times. When seen outside of the novel, it means "renunciation or rejection--often of comforts or luxuries" and is often seen as "self-abnegation".
- I drop the sledgehammer next to the dented bowl and kneel beside Edward, Abnegation stones digging into my kneecaps.
p. 37.7abnegation = in this novel, the group of people that practice self-denial
- He wears all black, but I can see a hint of Abnegation gray peeking over the collar of his sweatshirt.
p. 55.8
- It's strange to see my Dauntless friends in Abnegation colors, as if they've been with me my entire life.
p. 55.9
- Now I have met the men and women who operate them, and some of that mystery is gone, but what they mean to me will never be gone—my first act as a Dauntless was to jump on one, and every day afterward they were the source of my freedom, they gave me the power to move within this world when I had once felt so trapped in the Abnegation sector, in the house that was a prison to me.
p. 83.8
- There's the Abnegation sector.
p. 87.4
- She made me think, for the first time, that I could leave Abnegation—that I had to.
p. 99.3
- The patrols were structured so that the trucks would run out of gas if they went too far, a delicate system of checks and balances that preserved our safety and theirs—and, I now realize, the secret the Abnegation kept.
p. 99.8
- And Abnegation's resets memory.
p. 100.1
- The Amity are charged with administering the Abnegation serum to anyone who goes out past the limit, just enough to make them forget the experience.
p. 100.3
- The walls on either side of us gradually disappear as the land flattens out, and I see buildings everywhere, some small, like the Abnegation houses, and some wide, like city buildings turned on their sides.
p. 110.2
- And he's right to say that every faction loses something when it gains a virtue: the Dauntless, brave but cruel; the Erudite, intelligent but vain; the Amity, peaceful but passive; the Candor, honest but inconsiderate; the Abnegation, selfless but stifling.
p. 123.5
- We didn't expect the leader of Erudite to start hunting them down—or for the Abnegation to even tell her what they were—and contrary to what Edith Prior said, we never really intended for you to send a Divergent army out to us.
p. 126.6
- choosing Abnegation, engaging in a lifelong struggle against his own nature, and ultimately fulfilling it.
p. 127.9
- You mean, with the Abnegation serum.
p. 141.7
- We call it 'memory serum,' since it doesn't technically just belong to the Abnegation, but yeah.
p. 141.8
- He was an Abnegation leader, after all, and as such, one of the keepers of the truth.
p. 154.8
- Abnegation children rarely know their parents in any significant way, because Abnegation parents never reveal themselves the way other parents do when their children grow to a particular age.
p. 159.7
- Abnegation children rarely know their parents in any significant way, because Abnegation parents never reveal themselves the way other parents do when their children grow to a particular age.
p. 159.8
- All around us, the others are noticing George by the door and going quiet, the same kind of quiet you hear at an Abnegation funeral.
p. 162.8
- Only they didn't do much with the memory serum—the Abnegation serum.
p. 167.6
- This is not the person who the city knows as my father—the patient, calm leader of Abnegation who would never hurt anyone, least of all his own son or wife.
p. 199.5
- The Abnegation do not allow divorce.
p. 200.2
- What happened to make her join Abnegation instead?
p. 206.8
- So tomorrow, at the Choosing Ceremony, Andrew and I are going to choose Abnegation together.
p. 208.3
- Andrew and I are going to choose Abnegation together.
p. 208.5
- Let's get this straight: I'm not going to forget why I'm here just because I chose Abnegation and I'm going to get married.
p. 210.1
- He told me that Evelyn gave it to him when he was young, and instructed him to hide it from his father, who wouldn't approve of a useless-but-beautiful object, Abnegation that he was.
p. 213.0
- I didn't think much of it at the time, but it must mean something to her, if she carried it all the way from the Abnegation sector to Erudite headquarters to keep on her bedside table.
p. 213.1
- I'm reading her journal, and I guess I'm having a hard time figuring out how they even met, or why they joined Abnegation together.
p. 214.0
- Your father wanted out of Erudite, and your mother didn't want in, no matter what her mission was—but she still wanted to be near Andrew, so they chose Abnegation together.
p. 216.2
- But she was still able to carry out her mission in Abnegation.
p. 216.5
- Of course, Abnegation turned out to be no better, in some ways.
p. 216.6
- Even the Abnegation leadership was poisoned by it.
p. 216.7
- To the Abnegation, power should only be given to people who don't want it.
p. 218.9
- I think of how he disguised that part of himself, wedging books between his headboard and the wall in our Abnegation house, until he dropped his blood in the Erudite water on the day of our Choosing Ceremony.
p. 222.7
- I may have lived on Abnegation bread and vegetables for most of my life, with nothing to spare, but I was never that desperate.
p. 226.5
- Would we have chosen the same factions we did if Mom and Dad hadn't chosen Abnegation?
p. 227.0
- Even though she took an Abnegation name?
p. 227.7
- There were a few Abnegation outliers, and one or two Candor, but the through line is fairly consistent.
p. 227.8
- I stopped cutting it like the Abnegation when I wanted the Dauntless to see me as a potential leader, but I miss the ritual of the old way, the buzz of the clippers and the careful movements of my hands, knowing more by touch than by sight.
p. 231.5
- When I was young, my father used to do it, in the hallway on the top floor of our Abnegation house.
p. 231.7
- It's not hard for me to believe that the Bureau would do bad things, because every government I've ever known has done bad things, even the Abnegation oligarchy, of which my father was the head.
p. 236.3
- "When the Abnegation wanted to reveal the great truth of their world sooner than they were supposed to," she says slowly, "and Jeanine wanted to stifle them ...the Bureau was all too happy to provide her with an incredibly advanced simulation serum—the attack simulation that enslaved the minds of the Dauntless, that resulted in the destruction of Abnegation."
p. 265.2
- "When the Abnegation wanted to reveal the great truth of their world sooner than they were supposed to," she says slowly, "and Jeanine wanted to stifle them ...the Bureau was all too happy to provide her with an incredibly advanced simulation serum—the attack simulation that enslaved the minds of the Dauntless, that resulted in the destruction of Abnegation."
p. 265.5
Definition:
to renounce or reject -- often self-denial of luxuries
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