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

The quality of Mantchou has thus by degrees become a very costly affair, and many, of consequence, seek altogether to abnegate it. 

From Travels in Tartary, Thibet, and China During the years 1844-5-6. Volume 1 [of 2] by Huc, Evariste Regis

He could not abnegate his responsibility and cast it upon others.

From The Trial and Death of Jesus Christ A Devotional History of our Lord's Passion by Stalker, James

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

Thenceforward she was an invalid and an old woman, who had abnegated her will in favor of her daughter's, and asked for nothing better than to be governed as well as cared for.

From Name and Fame A Novel by Sergeant, Adeline

The regal authority was thus apparently abnegated; necessity discarding forms, and the safety of the people being the supreme law.

From History of the Colony and Ancient Dominion of Virginia by Campbell, Charles

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

Compare a Botticelli Madonna, with all her wounded and abnegating sensuality, with a Hans Memling Madonna, whose soul is pure and only reverential.

From Fantasia of the Unconscious by Lawrence, D. H. (David Herbert)

On such occasions, his bow of conscious merit abnegating praise was, I am told, wonderful to see.

From Guy Livingstone; or, 'Thorough' by Lawrence, George A. (George Alfred)

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

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

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