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Abnegation

noun
1.
The denial and rejection of a doctrine or belief.
2.
Renunciation of your own interests in favor of the interests of others.  Synonyms: denial, self-abnegation, self-denial, self-renunciation.



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"Abnegation" Quotes from Famous Books



... the episode of the boy chez Madame Laure. A casual recollection brings up the schooldays of his childhood with the Jesuits, and with that the beliefs of childhood, the fantasies of the Church, the Catholic abnegation of the Imitatio joining so strangely with the final philosophy of Schopenhauer. At times his brain is haunted by social theories—his dull hatred of the ordinary in life taking form in the region of ideas. But in the main ...
— Figures of Several Centuries • Arthur Symons
... think I shall be long," murmured Ermine, a vivid colour flashing forth upon her cheek, and leading the question from herself. "Just suppose you did carry out this fierce act of self-abnegation, what do you think ...
— The Clever Woman of the Family • Charlotte M. Yonge
... of self-abnegation gave birth to renewed hope; and when his captor had handcuffed him and was walking him toward a closed carriage drawn up before the nearest saloon in the river-fronting street, he ventured to ask what he ...
— The Price • Francis Lynde
... painful to look upon than the self-renunciation, the self-abnegation of mothers,—painful both for its testimony and its prophecy. Its testimony is of over-care, over-work, over-weariness, the abuse of capacities that were bestowed for most sacred uses, an utter waste of most ...
— Gala-days • Gail Hamilton
... archway, past the dark shadows which the ponderous castle-towers flung across the rippling water. She left the town, and went out upon the lonely country road, through patches of moonlight and shadow, fearless in her self-abnegation, with only one thought in her mind: "Would ...
— Henry Dunbar - A Novel • M. E. Braddon


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