Abnegation Definition

ăbnĭ-gāshən
noun
Self-denial.
American Heritage
A giving up of rights, etc.; self-denial; renunciation.
Webster's New World

A denial; a renunciation; denial of desire or self-interest. [First attested around 1350 to 1470.]

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Other Word Forms of Abnegation

Noun

Singular:
abnegation
Plural:
abnegations

Origin of Abnegation

  • First attested before 1398. From abnegacioun Late Latin abnegātiō, from abnegō (“refuse, deny”), from ab (“off”) + negō (“deny; refuse, say no”). Compare French abnégation.

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Abnegation Sentence Examples

  • This instance of abnegation is the more worthy of record that it formed a marked exception to Laplace's usual course.

  • With the memory of Tilsit still fresh in men's minds, it was not unnatural that to cynical men of the world like Metternich he merely seemed to be disguising " under the language of evangelical abnegation " vast and perilous schemes of ambition.

  • He set duty above everything, had in the highest degree a reverence for honour, and placed his indomitable courage at the service of everything that was beneficial with an abnegation that nothing could tire.

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