abnegate

Definitions

1. To deny (oneself something); to renounce or give up (a right, a power, a claim, a privilege, a convenience).
   transitive
2. To relinquish; to surrender; to abjure.
   transitive

Equivalents

Examples

“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.”

“All ancient and modern histories of nations abnegate God.”

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