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Definition of Abnegated
1. abnegate [v] - See also: abnegate
Lexicographical Neighbors of Abnegated
Literary usage of Abnegated
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Theological and Literary Journal (1859)
"I could I abnegated my own rational nature, denied reason to make way for
revelation, rational conviction to make way for authority."—P. 30. ..."
2. On Liberty by John Stuart Mill (1921)
"... of human excellence from the Calvinistic: a conception of humanity as having
its nature bestowed on it for other purposes than merely to be abnegated. ..."
3. On Liberty by John Stuart ( Mill (1913)
"... istic : a conception of humanity * having its nature bestowed on ltf« other
purposes than merely to be abnegated. ' Pagan self-assertion' ie od« of the ..."
4. The Promised Land by Mary Antin (1912)
"I ate, but only a newly abnegated Jew can understand with what squirming, what
protesting of the inner man, what exquisite abhorrence of myself. ..."
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