abnegate

present singular third person abnegates · participle present abnegating · participle past abnegated · past abnegated

1. transitiveTo deny (oneself something); to renounce or give up (a right, a power, a claim, a privilege, a convenience).First known use First attested in the early 17ᵗʰ century.

   All ancient and modern histories of nations abnegate God.

   1875 January 28, Brownson's Quarterly Review, page 20

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   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.

   1898 December 10, “Asbell v. State”, in The Pacific Reporter, volume 55, page 339

2. transitiveTo relinquish; to surrender; to abjure.First known use First attested in the mid 18ᵗʰ century.