abnegate

“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

In those days the strong made no pretence to protect the weak, or to abnegate their natural power.

From Hodge and His Masters by Jefferies, Richard

In the vanity typical of the insecure, they abnegate all foreign knowledge.

From After the Rain : how the West lost the East by Vaknin, Samuel

Briefly, the nature of Death is to be pallid: therefore Death, in blushing, abnegates his very nature, and almost ceases to be Death.

From Adonais by Shelley, Percy Bysshe

Abnegā′tion, renunciation; Ab′negator, one who abnegates or renounces.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various

I was lifted up into the higher love that worships and abnegates.

From Ghetto Tragedies by Zangwill, Israel

It’s too late for a change, Clinton abnegated, but, it’s misleading to readers and could have lasting consequences to not address this.

From New York Times ● Nov. 13, 2016

But to go on that trip, Mort abnegated her parental responsibilities and priorities, behaving in her own, and not her children’s, best interests.

From Slate ● Sep. 29, 2014

I need not tell you that Louis Bonaparte has virtually abnegated _Les idees Napoleoniennes,—a fatal mistake for him, a glorious advance for us.

From The Parisians — Volume 05 by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron

But he had so long abnegated the exercise of his rights and privileges, sinking the noble in the mechanician, that men had forgotten the proper style in which they should address him.

From After London Or, Wild England by Jefferies, Richard

Almost every personal luxury and pleasure had been abnegated.

From A Lost Leader by Oppenheim, E. Phillips (Edward Phillips)

Historian Theodore Roszak wades into "The Complacencies of the Academy: 1967" with a spirited attack on today's professors for abnegating their traditional responsibility as philosophes.

From Time Magazine Archive

The Emperor seemed to appreciate perfectly the charms of this angelic woman, whose gentle and self- abnegating character made a profound impression on me.

From Recollections of the Private Life of Napoleon — Volume 05 by Clark, Walter

“It’s surely not abnegating common sense just to—to recognize honesty.”

From The Dust Flower by Kline, Hibberd V. B. (Hibberd Van Buren)

Never abnegating her own proper independence, but always genially preserving it, and what belongs to it—cooking, washing, child-nursing, house-tending—she beams sunshine out of all these duties, and makes them illustrious.

From Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy by Whitman, Walt

"No, I'll be hanged if I am," protested the abnegating Peckover.

From A Poached Peerage by Magnay, William