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Definition of Abnegates
1. abnegate [v] - See also: abnegate
Lexicographical Neighbors of Abnegates
Literary usage of Abnegates
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Philosophy of History by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, John Sibree (1900)
"Thus subjective Spirit gains emancipation in the Truth, abnegates its particularity
and comes to itself in realizing the truth of its being. ..."
2. The Contemporary Review (1872)
"... in which, to keep faith with the universe of beings, He abnegates all change ;
but beyond which, in His transcendent relations with dependent and ..."
3. The Philosophy of History by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, John Sibree (1899)
"Thus subjective Spirit gains emancipation in the Truth, abnegates its particularity
and comes to itself in realizing the truth of its being. ..."
4. The Political Thought of Plato and Aristotle by Ernest Barker (1906)
"Reason means unselfishness : it means that the man whom it animates abnegates
mere self-satisfaction as his aim, and throws himself into the welfare of a ..."
5. The Life of Thomas Jefferson by Henry Stephens Randall (1858)
"He never records the latter in light of victories; he never so far abnegates his
manhood as to speak of the former as if a difference of opinion with any ..."
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