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She spurns the doctrine that it is woman's position to abnegate and to immolate herself.
THE SALAMANDEROWEN JOHNSONThe quality of Mantchou has thus by degrees become a very costly affair, and many, of consequence, seek altogether to abnegate it.
TRAVELS IN TARTARY, THIBET, AND CHINAEVARISTE REGIS HUCIn those days the strong made no pretence to protect the weak, or to abnegate their natural power.
HODGE AND HIS MASTERSRICHARD JEFFERIESIn the vanity typical of the insecure, they abnegate all foreign knowledge.
AFTER THE RAINSAM VAKNINThe most God-like man is the one who can abnegate without feeling the sacrifice.
WHERE ART BEGINSHUME NISBETThe fact of so little cultivation does not abnegate the existence of industry on the part of the villagers.
THE WAR TRAILMAYNE REIDWORDS RELATED TO ABNEGATE
- abjure
- abnegate
- avoid
- cease
- constrain
- curb
- decline
- deny oneself
- do without
- eschew
- evade
- fast
- fence-sit
- forbear
- forgo
- give the go by
- give up
- go on the wagon
- keep from
- pass
- pass up
- quit
- refrain
- refuse
- renounce
- shun
- sit on one's hands
- sit on the fence
- sit out
- spurn
- starve
- stop
- take the cure
- take the pledge
- withhold
- abjure
- abnegate
- ban
- begrudge
- call on
- contradict
- contravene
- controvert
- curb
- disacknowledge
- disallow
- disavow
- disbelieve
- discard
- disclaim
- discredit
- disown
- disprove
- doubt
- enjoin from
- eschew
- exclude
- forbid
- forgo
- forsake
- gainsay
- hold back
- keep back
- negate
- negative
- not buy
- nullify
- oppose
- rebuff
- rebut
- recant
- refuse
- refute
- reject
- repudiate
- restrain
- revoke
- sacrifice
- say no to
- spurn
- taboo
- take exception to
- turn down
- turn thumbs down
- veto
- withhold
- abandon
- abjure
- abnegate
- belittle
- contradict
- contravene
- criticize
- decline
- deprecate
- disacknowledge
- disaffirm
- disallow
- disavow
- discard
- disown
- disparage
- divorce oneself from
- forswear
- gainsay
- minimize
- negate
- recant
- refuse
- reject
- renounce
- repudiate
- retract
- revoke
- spurn
- traverse
- turn back on
- wash hands of
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.