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First attested before 1398. From Middle English abnegacioun, borrowed from Late Latin abnegātiō, from abnegō (“refuse, deny”), from ab (“off”) + negō (“deny; refuse, say no”). Compare French abnégation.
abnegation (countable and uncountable, plural abnegations)
- A denial; a renunciation; denial of desire or self-interest. [First attested around 1350 to 1470.][1]
- Synonyms: repudiation, self-denial, denial, renunciation
1558, John Knox, Letter to the Queen Dowager:
With abnegation of God, of his honor, and of religion, they may retain the friendship of the court.
1907 January, Harold Bindloss, chapter 20, in The Dust of Conflict, 1st Canadian edition, Toronto, Ont.: McLeod & Allen, →OCLC:
Tony's face expressed relief, and Nettie sat silent for a moment until the vicar said “It was a generous impulse, but it may have been a momentary one, while in the case of monk and crusader there must have been a sustaining purpose, and possibly a great abnegation, a leaving of lands and possessions.”
denial; renunciation
- Arabic: نكران تنازل
- Bulgarian: отричане (bg) n (otričane), отхвърляне (bg) n (othvǎrljane)
- Catalan: abnegació f
- Dutch: verloochening (nl), verwerping (nl) m, afwijzing (nl)
- Esperanto: abnegacio
- Finnish: kieltäminen (fi)
- French: abnégation (fr) f
- Hindi: आत्मनिषेध (ātmaniṣedh)
- Irish: diúltú m
- Italian: abnegazione (it) f
- Macedonian: самоодреку́вање n (samoodrekúvanje)
- Malayalam: നിരാകരണം (ml) (nirākaraṇaṁ)
- Portuguese: abnegação (pt) f
- Romanian: abnegație (ro) f
- Russian: самоотрече́ние (ru) m (samootrečénije)
- Spanish: abnegación (es) f
- Ukrainian: зречення n (zrečennja), запере́чення n (zaperéčennja); самопожертва f (samopožertva)
- ^ Lesley Brown, editor-in-chief, William R. Trumble and Angus Stevenson, editors (2002), “abnegation”, in The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary on Historical Principles, 5th edition, Oxford, New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 6.
abnegation (plural abnegationes)