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abnegation

[ab-ni-gey-shuhn] / ˌæb nɪˈgeɪ ʃən /


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Above all, it requires an abnegation of the self.

From Washington Post • Sep. 9, 2022

The gospel of ‘disruptive innovation’ depends on the abnegation of history2.

From Nature • Sep. 15, 2020

If DiAngelo herself can’t resist, she performs a ritual of abnegation.

From The New Yorker • Aug. 12, 2019

She and Ms. Nelson-Greenberg, a student in the M.F.A. program at the University of California San Diego, are both interested in how women’s internalized misogyny becomes abnegation and self-loathing.

From New York Times • Apr. 15, 2019

When he saw the quantity of food she’d laid out for him, though, his ingrained abnegation rose to the surface.

From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor




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