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

They are the brave and loyal spirit seeking to abnegate those selfish claims which in my case are irresistible.

From The Men Who Wrought by Ridgwell Cullum

In those days the strong made no pretence to protect the weak, or to abnegate their natural power.

From Hodge and His Masters by Richard Jefferies

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

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

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

But he had so long abnegated the exercise of his rights and privileges, sinking the noble in the mechanician, that men had forgotten the proper style in which they should address him.

From After London Or, Wild England by Richard Jefferies

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

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 D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

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

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

From A Poached Peerage by William Magnay