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

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

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

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

With us descendants of the Puritans especially, these weather-competitions supply the abnegated excitement of the race-course.

From My Garden Acquaintance by Lowell, James Russell

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

In the society of his mistresses he abnegated his duties as a monarch, and the labors of his life were employed in gratifying their resentments and humoring their caprices.

From Beacon Lights of History, Volume 08 Great Rulers by Lord, John

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

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

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)

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)