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 fact of so little cultivation does not abnegate the existence of industry on the part of the villagers.

From The War Trail The Hunt of the Wild Horse by Mayne Reid

Lest I might be supposed to misrepresent, I will quote their own language: "No government can, voluntarily, relinquish its powers, and abnegate its authority without thereby inviting disorder, disquietude, and, in the end, its destruction."

From History and Ecclesiastical Relations of the Churches of the Presbyterial Order at Amoy, China by J. V. N. (John Van Nest) Talmage

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 Percy Bysshe Shelley

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

From Ghetto Tragedies by Israel Zangwill

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

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

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 Adeline Sergeant

His unconscious suavity, his abnegated personality, formed a mighty magnet; and every soul, with any steel of nobleness in it, fondly swayed to him.

From The Friendships of Women by William Rounseville Alger

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 John Lord

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 Walt Whitman

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 Walter Clark

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

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

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

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