Abnegatory

Pronunciation varies by accent · adjective

Meaning

Of or relating to abnegation; serving to abnegate..

Example Sentences

1630, Elizabeth Cary (translator), The Reply of the Most Illustrious Cardinall of Perron, to the Answeare of the Most Excellent King of Great Britaine the First Tome, Douay: Martin Bogart, Chapter 27, p. 120, […] he spake not with a iudiciary anathema, but with an anathema abiuratory, and abnegatory whereby hee did not seperate Liberius from the communion of the Church, who had alreadie seperated himselfe, […] but whereby he seperated himselfe from the communion of Liberius.

To say that the blanks left by such men are not felt—to say that their places can be readily supplied would be absurd, and unwise as abnegatory of that high reputation which the Society has ever enjoyed.

[…] the Spanish government requested Great Britain and France, in January, 1852, to secure the signature by the American government in conjunction with them of an abnegatory declaration with respect to Cuba.

Lord Irwin […] toyed with the idea of entering upon a fast himself, in the Gandhian manner, to bring peace to India by self-redemption, and though he was dissuaded from this unprecedented gesture, still his approach to Indian politics was tinged with an abnegatory mysticism.

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• more abnegatory
• most abnegatory

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