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
Women are often advised to avoid any whiff of abnegation or apologia.
From The New Yorker • Dec. 31, 2018
In the 1980s, he wrote “The 120 Year Diet” and then followed it up with even more misery and abnegation in “Beyond the 120 Year Diet.”
From New York Times • Mar. 9, 2018
José Arcadio Buendía made no attempt to console her, completely absorbed in his tactical experiments with the abnegation of a scientist and even at the risk of his own life.
From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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