Sentence example with the word 'abnegation'

abnegation

abstinence, declension, disclamation, happy medium, moderateness, negativeness, nonobservance, renunciation, self-mastery, temperateness, withholding

Definition n. the denial and rejection of a doctrine or belief

Last update: June 2, 2018


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Her abnegation of ice cream and cookies is due to her Olympic team training.   [noun]

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Because everyone knew Jane loved serving the public, they were shocked by her abnegation of the congressional seat.   [Please select]

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Envy, jealousy, abnegation, equanimity.   [Please select]

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Why more abnegation than jealousy, less envy than equanimity.   [Please select]

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His action was applauded by Young China at the time as evidence of patriotic self-abnegation, but events proved that it was chiefly inspired by recognition of the fact that he and the Cantonese group of politicians who had joined him as leaders of the Republican movement, did not yet carry sufficient weight to justify them in attempting to form a national government.   [Please select]

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He declared that humility, benevolence, and self-abnegation were the greatest virtues.   [Please select]

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In such a situation the voice of self-abnegation must needs grow still and small indeed.   [Please select]

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But she, in a pure mood of abnegation, would hear nothing against King Richard.   [Please select]

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He was demanding too much of his exhausted capacity for self-abnegation.   [Please select]

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Her modesty and self-abnegation were not, so far as any one knew, the result of principle.   [Please select]

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It was the furthest limit of self-abnegation, at least so he interpreted it.   [Please select]

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ablution - abnegation - abominate