abnegation

Example Sentences

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The activists, however, see the fence and the proposed culling as an abnegation of the park service’s duty to protect the iconic species, which once numbered in the hundreds of thousands across Central California.

From Los Angeles Times

“This is an absolute abnegation of federal power.”

From Seattle Times

“A man of great courage, who has demonstrated his will to serve the country with a spirit of self-sacrifice and abnegation.”

From New York Times

Counter-Enlightenment thinkers such as Joseph de Maistre condemned the Enlightenment’s extolling of the individual’s will and desires, insisting on “individual abnegation” in a well-ordered, hierarchical, authoritarian society.

From Washington Post

Women are often advised to avoid any whiff of abnegation or apologia.

From The New Yorker