abnegation
Example Sentences
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Above all, it requires an abnegation of the self.
From Washington Post • Sep. 9, 2022
The gospel of ‘disruptive innovation’ depends on the abnegation of history2.
From Nature • Sep. 15, 2020
She and Ms. Nelson-Greenberg, a student in the M.F.A. program at the University of California San Diego, are both interested in how women’s internalized misogyny becomes abnegation and self-loathing.
From New York Times • Apr. 15, 2019
Women are often advised to avoid any whiff of abnegation or apologia.
From The New Yorker • Dec. 31, 2018
It was probably just peaceful despair and relief at final and complete abnegation, now that Judith was about to immolate the frustration’s vicarious recompense into the living fairy tale.
From "Absalom, Absalom!" by William Faulkner
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