abnegation

Example Sentences

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Above all, it requires an abnegation of the self.

From Washington Post

The gospel of ‘disruptive innovation’ depends on the abnegation of history2.

From Nature

The activists, however, see the fence and the proposed culling as an abnegation of the park service’s duty to protect the iconic species, which once numbered in the hundreds of thousands across Central California.

From Los Angeles Times

“This is an absolute abnegation of federal power.”

From Seattle Times

He picked grapes and picked over the Bible, thinking he had picked the right way to traverse the world: through “abnegation and continuous mortification.”

From Los Angeles Times