abnegate
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English [edit]
Etymology [edit]
- First attested in 1657.
- Either from the Latin abnegō (“to refuse, reject”) from ab (“away from”) + negō (“to deny”),[1][2] or Back-formation from abnegation.[3][4].
Pronunciation [edit]
Verb [edit]
abnegate (third-person singular simple present abnegates, present participle abnegating, simple past and past participle abnegated)
- (transitive) To deny (oneself something); to renounce or give up (a right, a power, a claim, a privilege, a convenience). [First attested in the early 17th century.][2]
- 1898 December 10, Asbell v. State, reported in The Pacific Reporter, volume 55, page 339:
- To compel a state, upon theories of doubtful statutory interpretation, to appear as defendant suitor in its own courts, and to litigate with private parties as to whether it had abnegated its sovereignty of exemption, would be intolerable.
- 1875 January, Brownson's Quarterly Review, page 20:
- All ancient and modern histories of nations abnegate God.
- 1898 December 10, Asbell v. State, reported in The Pacific Reporter, volume 55, page 339:
- (transitive) To relinquish; to surrender; to abjure. [First attested in the mid 18th century.][2]
Derived terms [edit]
Related terms [edit]
Translations [edit]
to deny oneself something
to reject, to deny
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- Bulgarian: отричам, отхвърлям, отказвам (се от)
- Vietnamese: nhịn, bỏ, từ bỏ, từ chối không nhận
References [edit]
- ^ 2007 [2002], Lindberg, Christine A. editor, The Oxford College Dictionary, edition 2nd, New York, NY: Spark Publishing., ISBN 978-1-4114-0500-4, page 3:
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2003 [1933], Brown, Lesley editor, The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary, edition 5th, Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, ISBN 978-0-19-860575-7, page 6:
- ^ 2004 [1998], Elliott K. Dobbie; Dunmore, C. William, et al., Barnhart, Robert K. editor, Chambers Dictionary of Etymology, Edinburgh, Scotland: Chambers Harrap Publishers Ltd, ISBN 0550142304, page 3:
- ^ 1976 [1909], Gove, Philip Babcock editor, Webster's Third International Dictionary of the English Language Unabridged, Springfield, MA: G. & C. Merriam Co., ISBN 0-87779-101-5, page 4:
Latin [edit]
Verb [edit]
abnegāte
- first-person plural present active imperative of abnegō
