abnegate
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“It is not the intention of the Myanmar government to apportion blame or to abnegate responsibility. We condemn all human rights violations and unlawful violence.”
From The Guardian • Mar. 16, 2018
Yet for true global ruination, many other nations would need to abnegate their moral obligation to protect the planet.
From Washington Post • Mar. 29, 2017
The compassion for the perpetrator should never abnegate the the requirement for justice to the victim.
From New York Times • Aug. 22, 2016
She spurns the doctrine that it is woman's position to abnegate and to immolate herself.
From The Salamander by Johnson, Owen
Lest I might be supposed to misrepresent, I will quote their own language: "No government can, voluntarily, relinquish its powers, and abnegate its authority without thereby inviting disorder, disquietude, and, in the end, its destruction."
From History and Ecclesiastical Relations of the Churches of the Presbyterial Order at Amoy, China by Talmage, J. V. N. (John Van Nest)
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