abnegativeadj.

1778 J. H. Tooke Let. to Dunning 16 At the same time we shall get rid of that useless farrago of useless distinctions into Conjunctive,..Ablative, Præsumptive, Abnegative [etc.].

1824 S. T. Coleridge Notebks. (1990) IV. §5108 It is far otherwise where in order to distinguish we must abstract, and remove; where the preparatory process is principally abnegative.

1859 in Times 27 June 9/6 A junction of interests abnegative of the national religion, subversive of Protestant principles, and in its nature ruinous to the souls of men.

1928 Amer. Polit. Sci. Rev. 22 59 The purely passive, abnegative policy of a struggling soviet government was being transformed into a program of positive and cordial collaboration between a well-knit Union and China.

1974 Jrnl. Black Stud. 4 366 The state government became functionally negligent and decadent while its agents became abnegative and obstinately heedless to peasant entreaties.

1991 F. Fischer in C. I. Mulhern Heroic with Grace iii. 124 The sense of futility and abnegative self-image plaguing women are crystallized in a famous poem by Ono no Komachi.