abnegative
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Latin abnegativus.
Pronunciation[edit]
Adjective[edit]
abnegative (comparative more abnegative, superlative most abnegative)
- (obsolete, rare): Denying; renouncing; negative
- 1872, Sara Jane Lippincott, New Life in New Lands:
- There is rather in their faces a quiet , baffling , negative , and abnegative expression , which certainly is as far from happy content as it is from desperate rebellion
Latin[edit]
Adjective[edit]
abnegātīve
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