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

It’s all the more necessary for me not to abnegate that, for the simple reason that you do.”

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

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

Almost every personal luxury and pleasure had been abnegated.

From A Lost Leader by E. Phillips (Edward Phillips) Oppenheim

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

From My Garden Acquaintance by James Russell Lowell

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

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

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

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

"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

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