abnegationn.

Brit.

/ˌabnᵻˈɡeɪʃn/, U.S.

/ˌæbnəˈɡeɪʃ(ə)n/

Forms: Middle English abnegacioun, Middle English–1500s abnegacion, 1500s abnegacyon, 1500s– abnegation.

Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from French. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Etymons: French abnegation; Latin abnegation-, abnegatio.

Etymology: < Middle French abnegation action of rejecting two contradictory elements by negation (1377 in logic), action of renouncing (a belief, doctrine, etc.), disavowal (both late 14th cent.), action of denying the existence of something (late 15th cent.), self-sacrifice, renunciation of self (1491; French abnégation , now usually in the latter sense) and its etymon post-classical Latin abnegation-, abnegatio denial of an assertion (4th cent.), renunciation (4th or 5th cent.), (with sui ) self-denial (13th cent. in a British source), denial or repudiation of Christ or Christian faith (14th cent. in British sources) < classical Latin abnegāt- , past participial stem of abnegāre abnegate v. + -iō -ion suffix¹. Compare Catalan abnegació, Spanish abnegación (1494 or earlier), Portuguese abnegação (1555; 1549 as abnegaçam), Italian abnegazione (14th cent. as annegazione).

†a. Denial of an assertion, statement of what is not the case; absence of evidence for a case. Obsolete. rare.

ΚΠ

a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add.) f. 9 Þerfore positif he [sc. God] may nouȝt be knowe but by þeffect of his werkes, þeyȝe he be primatiue [L. priuatiue] by many maner abnegacioun descriued and I nempned in scripturis.

1591 R. Cosin Apol. for Sundrie Proc. iii. viii. 104 As may positiuely appeare by Acts of Ecclesiasticall Courts, and (by way of abnegation) may be shewed from the recordes at the common Lawe. In that (as I thinke) it will not in them be found.

b. Denial, formal rejection (of a doctrine, tenet, etc.); (also) refusal (of a course of action, etc.).

ΘΚΠ

the mind > language > statement > refusal > [noun] > rejection or non-acceptance

renunciation1418

rejectinga1425

reprobationa1425

rejectiona1464

abjection?1529

refute1535

abdication1552

abnegation1554

abrenunciation1557

recusancy1563

repudy1575

offcasting?1591

rejectment1599

defiancea1616

canvass1621

non-acceptation1622

repudiation1640

disacceptance1642

non-acceptance1647

disowning1656

discard1663

disownment1806

unacceptance1865

ding1949

negging1996

1554 J. Knox Godly Let. sig. C vj^v What is in Asya? ignoraunce of God, what in Affrika? abnegation of Christe.

1572 in J. Bridges tr. R. Gwalther Hundred, Threescore & Fiftene Homelyes vppon Actes Apostles xviii. 415 (Table of wordes) For the attayning of peace, there needeth neyther dastardly dissimulation, nor false abnegation of the fayth.

1604 R. Parsons 3rd Pt. Treat. Conuersions in Treat. Three Conuersions Eng. II. x. 492 Another recantation also she made, or at least an abnegation.

1633 T. Adams Comm. 2 Peter (ii. 2) 422 Let us follow Peters Confession, not his abnegation.

1646 J. Gaule Select Cases Conscience 148 That hath brought us to an Abnegation of the Sacred Trinity.

1681 T. Delaune & B. Keach Τροπολογία i. i. 11 A Will and resolution to preserve Life, even by the denyal or abnegation of the Name of Christ.

1709 J. Johnson Clergy-man's Vade Mecum: Pt. II 194 They that used evasion, and did not right down subscribe the abnegation.

1825 R. Southey in Q. Rev. 33 155 On Easter..he was to eat animal food, in abnegation of the opinion imputed to the heretics on that subject.

1875 A. Maclaren Serm. 2nd Ser. xiv. 253 It is no cowardly abnegation of the responsibility of choice which is here enjoined.

1932 W. Faulkner Light in August vii. 139 They went on..in their rigid abnegation of all compromise more alike than actual blood could have made them.

1988 Jrnl. Design Hist. 1 135/2 It is an abnegation of class that reconfirms its class origins by attempting to conceal them.

2003 Sydney Morning Herald (Nexis) 3 Feb. (Guide section) 26 Some losers deserve to survive and executing them is an abnegation of the beliefs that sustain a man of honour.

2. Renunciation of oneself or one's individual will.

a. Used in conjunction with self.

ΚΠ

a1500 tr. Thomas à Kempis De Imitatione Christi (Trin. Dublin) (1893) 142 (MED) I wol þat þou lerne parfit abnegacion of þiself in my wille wiþoute contradiccion & compleynyng.

1613 T. Fitzherbert Adioynder to Suppl. R. Persons Discuss. x. 445 The obseruation of the Euangelicall Counsells of our Sauiour, to wit, of voluntary pouety [sic], Chastity, and obedience, abnegation of a mans selfe, and Chastisment of his flesh, by fasting, [etc.].

1638 R. Brathwait Spiritual Spicerie 319 True submission, depression, and abnegation of ones selfe, is the root of all vertues, of all health and happinesse.

1725 B. Bennet Christian Oratory ii. 143 A worshipping Posture of Soul, form'd to the Veneration of the eternal Wisdom, Goodness, Power and Holiness: Profound Humility, and Abnegation of self.

1830 S. Morgan France in 1829–30 I. 270 The abnegation of self, the abandonment of the paltry gloriole d'auteur, is a necessary sacrifice cheerfully encountered by the young literati of the present day.

1847 J. Yeowell Chron. Anc. Brit. Church viii. 77 The principal reason, however, which rendered the monastic orders so powerful..was the total abnegation of self.

1870 F. C. Bowen Logic xiii. 446 That earnestness of inquiring purpose which leads not so much to an abnegation as to the entire forgetfulness of self.

1955 Mississippi Valley Hist. Rev. 42 129 He possessed..an utter abnegation of self, and a courage that had stood the severest trials and which commanded respect and veneration.

1993 V. Milan From Depths xiv. 177 We Klingons practice abnegation of the self in service of the whole.

b. Without self; = self-abnegation n.

ΘΚΠ

society > morality > virtue > morally elevated quality > unselfishness > [noun] > self-denial > self-renunciation or abnegation

abnegation1623

self-annihilation1641

self-abnegation1647

self-renunciation1654

self-abandonment1777

self-renouncement1821

1623 J. Abbot Iesus Præfigured ii. 100 The Hammer which the rugged stones doth smite, Is a sharpe toole of abnegation hight.

1657 T. Reeve God's Plea for Nineveh 304 So much humility, so much abnegation..do not these discover a true mortified spirit?

1679 W. Penn Addr. Protestants ii. sig. S4 The Pretences of Romanists to Abnegation, to a Mortified and Self denying Life.

1745 tr. J. de Palafox y Mendoza New Odyssey xii. 94 After having gone a good length of the way in this manner, we came to the door of their apartment; where we found a religious, whom they called Abnegation, or Self-denial.

1796 J. Morony Serm. & Exhort. I. 26 He himself had..practised the greatest self-denial and abnegation, from the very first moment of his life.

1841 T. Carlyle On Heroes ii. 114 Difficulty, abnegation, martyrdom, death are the allurements that act on the heart of man.

1878 R. B. Smith Carthage 399 That alternation..of sordid selfishness and sublime abnegation.

1905 E. Wharton House of Mirth ii. v. 381 Her worldly wisdom would have counselled her against such an act of abnegation.

1929 A. L. Rowse Diary 28 Sept. (2003) 55 His brother has..gone to live in a peasant's hut in Bavaria. A life of abnegation, from which he..reproaches him for a life of compromise.

1994 30 Days in Church & in World No. 4. 77/1 The monk who based his salvation on abnegation..was faced with Mary who had received the gift of salvation gratuitously.

3. Denial to oneself of something esteemed or desired; renunciation of a personal right, claim, etc.; an act of sacrifice.

ΘΚΠ

society > morality > virtue > morally elevated quality > unselfishness > [noun] > self-denial

abnegation1532

self-denial1605

self-denying1640

deniedness1671

denial1873

1532 R. Whitford Pype or Tonne f. lxiiii Obedience is a wylful and vtter abnegacion and forsaking of proper wyll.

1627 J. C. Fursdon tr. R. Smith Life Visctess. Montague To Rdr. sig. *4 I propose a woman, not famous for rudenesse of habit, or rigour of diet,..or abnegation of the world.

1661 T. Blount Glossographia (ed. 2) at Iesuites For our greater devotion to the Sea Apostolique, and more full abnegation of our own wills and pleasures.

1702 in Rous's Academia Cœlestis vi. 91 The Abnegation of all Humane Wisdom, in a passive Childlike Resignation of the Soul to the Divine Spirit.

1783 T. Moss Imperfection Human Enjoyments 8 To drag along his macerated shade, In total abnegation of delight.

1855 J. L. Motley Rise Dutch Republic II. iii. ix. 459 His abnegation of an authority which he had not dared to assume.

1863 A. Jameson Legends Monastic Orders (ed. 3) 242 He set forth to preach..humility, abnegation of the world.

1922 J. Joyce Ulysses ii. xii. [Cyclops] 296 He, with an abnegation rare in these our times,..expressed the dying wish..that the meal should be divided in aliquot parts.

1989 P. Genega Striking Water 22 To fill in the holes, I must pantomime hunger, spleen and abnegation.

1998 M. Hulse tr. W. G. Sebald Rings of Saturn vi. 145 Soldiers who, a world away from their homeland, knew nothing but the rule of force, privation, and the abnegation of their own desires.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

单词	abnegation
释义	abnegationn. Brit. /ˌabnᵻˈɡeɪʃn/, U.S. /ˌæbnəˈɡeɪʃ(ə)n/ Forms: Middle English abnegacioun, Middle English–1500s abnegacion, 1500s abnegacyon, 1500s– abnegation. Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from French. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Etymons: French abnegation; Latin abnegation-, abnegatio. Etymology: < Middle French abnegation action of rejecting two contradictory elements by negation (1377 in logic), action of renouncing (a belief, doctrine, etc.), disavowal (both late 14th cent.), action of denying the existence of something (late 15th cent.), self-sacrifice, renunciation of self (1491; French abnégation , now usually in the latter sense) and its etymon post-classical Latin abnegation-, abnegatio denial of an assertion (4th cent.), renunciation (4th or 5th cent.), (with sui ) self-denial (13th cent. in a British source), denial or repudiation of Christ or Christian faith (14th cent. in British sources) < classical Latin abnegāt- , past participial stem of abnegāre abnegate v. + -iō -ion suffix¹. Compare Catalan abnegació, Spanish abnegación (1494 or earlier), Portuguese abnegação (1555; 1549 as abnegaçam), Italian abnegazione (14th cent. as annegazione). 1. †a. Denial of an assertion, statement of what is not the case; absence of evidence for a case. Obsolete. rare. ΚΠ a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add.) f. 9 Þerfore positif he [sc. God] may nouȝt be knowe but by þeffect of his werkes, þeyȝe he be primatiue [L. priuatiue] by many maner abnegacioun descriued and I nempned in scripturis. 1591 R. Cosin Apol. for Sundrie Proc. iii. viii. 104 As may positiuely appeare by Acts of Ecclesiasticall Courts, and (by way of abnegation) may be shewed from the recordes at the common Lawe. In that (as I thinke) it will not in them be found. b. Denial, formal rejection (of a doctrine, tenet, etc.); (also) refusal (of a course of action, etc.). ΘΚΠ the mind > language > statement > refusal > [noun] > rejection or non-acceptance renunciation1418 rejectinga1425 reprobationa1425 rejectiona1464 abjection?1529 refute1535 abdication1552 abnegation1554 abrenunciation1557 recusancy1563 repudy1575 offcasting?1591 rejectment1599 defiancea1616 canvass1621 non-acceptation1622 repudiation1640 disacceptance1642 non-acceptance1647 disowning1656 discard1663 disownment1806 unacceptance1865 ding1949 negging1996 1554 J. Knox Godly Let. sig. C vj^v What is in Asya? ignoraunce of God, what in Affrika? abnegation of Christe. 1572 in J. Bridges tr. R. Gwalther Hundred, Threescore & Fiftene Homelyes vppon Actes Apostles xviii. 415 (Table of wordes) For the attayning of peace, there needeth neyther dastardly dissimulation, nor false abnegation of the fayth. 1604 R. Parsons 3rd Pt. Treat. Conuersions in Treat. Three Conuersions Eng. II. x. 492 Another recantation also she made, or at least an abnegation. 1633 T. Adams Comm. 2 Peter (ii. 2) 422 Let us follow Peters Confession, not his abnegation. 1646 J. Gaule Select Cases Conscience 148 That hath brought us to an Abnegation of the Sacred Trinity. 1681 T. Delaune & B. Keach Τροπολογία i. i. 11 A Will and resolution to preserve Life, even by the denyal or abnegation of the Name of Christ. 1709 J. Johnson Clergy-man's Vade Mecum: Pt. II 194 They that used evasion, and did not right down subscribe the abnegation. 1825 R. Southey in Q. Rev. 33 155 On Easter..he was to eat animal food, in abnegation of the opinion imputed to the heretics on that subject. 1875 A. Maclaren Serm. 2nd Ser. xiv. 253 It is no cowardly abnegation of the responsibility of choice which is here enjoined. 1932 W. Faulkner Light in August vii. 139 They went on..in their rigid abnegation of all compromise more alike than actual blood could have made them. 1988 Jrnl. Design Hist. 1 135/2 It is an abnegation of class that reconfirms its class origins by attempting to conceal them. 2003 Sydney Morning Herald (Nexis) 3 Feb. (Guide section) 26 Some losers deserve to survive and executing them is an abnegation of the beliefs that sustain a man of honour. 2. Renunciation of oneself or one's individual will. a. Used in conjunction with self. ΚΠ a1500 tr. Thomas à Kempis De Imitatione Christi (Trin. Dublin) (1893) 142 (MED) I wol þat þou lerne parfit abnegacion of þiself in my wille wiþoute contradiccion & compleynyng. 1613 T. Fitzherbert Adioynder to Suppl. R. Persons Discuss. x. 445 The obseruation of the Euangelicall Counsells of our Sauiour, to wit, of voluntary pouety [sic], Chastity, and obedience, abnegation of a mans selfe, and Chastisment of his flesh, by fasting, [etc.]. 1638 R. Brathwait Spiritual Spicerie 319 True submission, depression, and abnegation of ones selfe, is the root of all vertues, of all health and happinesse. 1725 B. Bennet Christian Oratory ii. 143 A worshipping Posture of Soul, form'd to the Veneration of the eternal Wisdom, Goodness, Power and Holiness: Profound Humility, and Abnegation of self. 1830 S. Morgan France in 1829–30 I. 270 The abnegation of self, the abandonment of the paltry gloriole d'auteur, is a necessary sacrifice cheerfully encountered by the young literati of the present day. 1847 J. Yeowell Chron. Anc. Brit. Church viii. 77 The principal reason, however, which rendered the monastic orders so powerful..was the total abnegation of self. 1870 F. C. Bowen Logic xiii. 446 That earnestness of inquiring purpose which leads not so much to an abnegation as to the entire forgetfulness of self. 1955 Mississippi Valley Hist. Rev. 42 129 He possessed..an utter abnegation of self, and a courage that had stood the severest trials and which commanded respect and veneration. 1993 V. Milan From Depths xiv. 177 We Klingons practice abnegation of the self in service of the whole. b. Without self; = self-abnegation n. ΘΚΠ society > morality > virtue > morally elevated quality > unselfishness > [noun] > self-denial > self-renunciation or abnegation abnegation1623 self-annihilation1641 self-abnegation1647 self-renunciation1654 self-abandonment1777 self-renouncement1821 1623 J. Abbot Iesus Præfigured ii. 100 The Hammer which the rugged stones doth smite, Is a sharpe toole of abnegation hight. 1657 T. Reeve God's Plea for Nineveh 304 So much humility, so much abnegation..do not these discover a true mortified spirit? 1679 W. Penn Addr. Protestants ii. sig. S4 The Pretences of Romanists to Abnegation, to a Mortified and Self denying Life. 1745 tr. J. de Palafox y Mendoza New Odyssey xii. 94 After having gone a good length of the way in this manner, we came to the door of their apartment; where we found a religious, whom they called Abnegation, or Self-denial. 1796 J. Morony Serm. & Exhort. I. 26 He himself had..practised the greatest self-denial and abnegation, from the very first moment of his life. 1841 T. Carlyle On Heroes ii. 114 Difficulty, abnegation, martyrdom, death are the allurements that act on the heart of man. 1878 R. B. Smith Carthage 399 That alternation..of sordid selfishness and sublime abnegation. 1905 E. Wharton House of Mirth ii. v. 381 Her worldly wisdom would have counselled her against such an act of abnegation. 1929 A. L. Rowse Diary 28 Sept. (2003) 55 His brother has..gone to live in a peasant's hut in Bavaria. A life of abnegation, from which he..reproaches him for a life of compromise. 1994 30 Days in Church & in World No. 4. 77/1 The monk who based his salvation on abnegation..was faced with Mary who had received the gift of salvation gratuitously. 3. Denial to oneself of something esteemed or desired; renunciation of a personal right, claim, etc.; an act of sacrifice. ΘΚΠ society > morality > virtue > morally elevated quality > unselfishness > [noun] > self-denial abnegation1532 self-denial1605 self-denying1640 deniedness1671 denial1873 1532 R. Whitford Pype or Tonne f. lxiiii Obedience is a wylful and vtter abnegacion and forsaking of proper wyll. 1627 J. C. Fursdon tr. R. Smith Life Visctess. Montague To Rdr. sig. 4 I propose a woman, not famous for rudenesse of habit, or rigour of diet,..or abnegation of the world. 1661 T. Blount Glossographia* (ed. 2) at Iesuites For our greater devotion to the Sea Apostolique, and more full abnegation of our own wills and pleasures. 1702 in Rous's Academia Cœlestis vi. 91 The Abnegation of all Humane Wisdom, in a passive Childlike Resignation of the Soul to the Divine Spirit. 1783 T. Moss Imperfection Human Enjoyments 8 To drag along his macerated shade, In total abnegation of delight. 1855 J. L. Motley Rise Dutch Republic II. iii. ix. 459 His abnegation of an authority which he had not dared to assume. 1863 A. Jameson Legends Monastic Orders (ed. 3) 242 He set forth to preach..humility, abnegation of the world. 1922 J. Joyce Ulysses ii. xii. [Cyclops] 296 He, with an abnegation rare in these our times,..expressed the dying wish..that the meal should be divided in aliquot parts. 1989 P. Genega Striking Water 22 To fill in the holes, I must pantomime hunger, spleen and abnegation. 1998 M. Hulse tr. W. G. Sebald Rings of Saturn vi. 145 Soldiers who, a world away from their homeland, knew nothing but the rule of force, privation, and the abnegation of their own desires. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.a1398
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