Meaning of abnegatory | Babel Free

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Of or relating to abnegation; serving to abnegate.

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“1630, Elizabeth Cary (translator), The Reply⟳ of the Most Illustrious Cardinall of Perron, to the Answeare of the Most Excellent King of Great Britaine the First Tome, Douay: Martin Bogart, Chapter 27, p. 120, […] he spake not with a iudiciary anathema, but with an anathema abiuratory, and abnegatory whereby hee did not seperate Liberius from the communion of the Church, who had alreadie seperated himselfe, […] but whereby he seperated himselfe from the communion of Liberius.”

“To say⟳ that the blanks left by such men are not felt—to say⟳ that their places can be readily supplied would be absurd, and unwise as abnegatory of that high reputation which the Society has ever enjoyed.”

“[…] the Spanish government requested Great Britain and France, in January, 1852, to secure the signature by the American government in conjunction with them of an abnegatory declaration with respect⟳ to Cuba.”

“Lord Irwin […] toyed with the idea of entering upon a fast himself, in the Gandhian manner, to bring⟳ peace to India by self-redemption, and though he was dissuaded from this unprecedented gesture, still his approach⟳ to Indian politics was tinged with an abnegatory mysticism.”

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