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 Evariste Regis Huc

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

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

From Ghetto Tragedies by Israel Zangwill

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

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

Communism was an urban phenomenon - but it abnegated its "bourgeoisie" pedigree.

From The Belgian Curtain Europe after Communism by Samuel Vaknin

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 Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron Lytton

Why, was there not one man for whom she would have been content to be the veriest slave that ever abnegated every personal delight for the love of a hard master?

From Charlotte's Inheritance by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon

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

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

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

From A Poached Peerage by William Magnay

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