abnegate
/ˈabnɪɡeɪt
/verb [with object] formal
Renounce or reject (something desired or valuable): he attempts to abnegate personal responsibility...
- Greeks like Aristotle, who opposed atomism, equated it with a blind desire to abnegate the governance of Nature in favour of pure chance.
- In passages such as these, his most distinctive, Thackeray comes perilously near abnegating his responsibility as a human being, let alone as a moralist or satirist.
- He is undermining the suffering of victims and abnegating his responsibility as the leader of this country's Catholics.
Synonyms
renounce, reject, refuse, abandon, spurn, abdicate, give up, relinquish, abjure, repudiate, forswear, disavow, cast aside, drop, turn one's back on, wash one's hands of, eschew
archaic forsake
Derivatives
abnegator
- Are they perverted abnegators who, due to emotional deficit, are unable to experience the full affect of soul/pop/classical music?
- Prominent among the ‘peacemakers’ are the Pacifists; these people are the ultimate abnegators of responsibility, they surrender power to absolutely anyone who threatens to abuse it.
Origin
Early 17th century: from Latin abnegat- 'renounced', from the verb abnegare, from ab- 'away, off' + negare 'deny'.
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