abnegate
verb/ˈæb.nɪ.ɡeɪt/US/ˈæb.nɪ.ɡeɪt/UK
Etymology
First attested in 1657. * Perhaps from Latin abnegō (“to refuse, reject”) from ab (“away from”) + negō (“to deny”), * Alternatively, perhaps a back-formation from abnegation.
- borrowed from abnegō
Definitions
To deny (oneself something)
To deny (oneself something); to renounce or give up (a right, a power, a claim, a privilege, a convenience).
- To compel a state, upon theories of doubtful statutory interpretation, to appear as defendant suitor in its own courts, and to litigate with private parties as to whether it had abnegated its sovereignty of exemption, would be intolerable.
- All ancient and modern histories of nations abnegate God.
To relinquish
To relinquish; to surrender; to abjure.
The neighborhood
- neighborabnegation
- neighborabnegator
- neighborabnegatory
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for abnegate. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA