湖边社【每日一词】abnegate - vt. 放弃；舍弃；禁忌 ；短语 -abnegate fail 舍弃；abnegate the idea of freedom 放弃自由的观念；to self-abnegate: 自我舍弃；difficult to abnegate: 难舍
Definition: transitive verb
1 formal : DENY, RENOUNCE
abnegated their God
2 formal : SURRENDER, RELINQUISH
abnegated her powers
abnegator n. 拒绝者,放弃者
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Abnegate Has Latin Roots
There's no denying that the Latin root negāre has given English some useful words. That verb, which means "to deny," is the source of the noun abnegation, a synonym of denial. In time, people concluded that if there was a noun abnegation, there ought to be a related verb abnegate, and so they created one by a process called back-formation (that's the process of trimming an affix off a long word to make a shorter one). Other English offspring of negāre are deny, negate, and renegade.
Synonyms
abdicate,cede,relinquish,renounce,resign,step aside (from),step down (from),surrender
Examples of abnegate in a Sentence
abnegated all claims to the deceased lord's domain
felt that if the Congress adopted these security measures, it would be abnegating the nation's fundamental commitment to individual rights
Her sins are the sins of loving too much and in too self-abnegating a fashion.
—Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 14 Mar. 2023
Abnegating this responsibility is going against the will of the people and we were voted in to protect the interests of the people.
—Jan Engoren, Sun-Sentinel.com, 6 July 2017