Definition of abnegation in English:

abnegation

noun abnɪˈɡeɪʃ(ə)nˌæbnəˈɡeɪʃ(ə)n

mass noun

1The action of renouncing or rejecting something.
放弃，拒绝
abnegation of political power
放弃政治立法权。
Example sentencesExamples
- It seems to a bemused outsider at times as if the country must have its own cultural variant of masochistic puritanism, a collective desire for the penitential abnegation of prosperity and all its works.
- Kiarostami's strict two-camera-position approach is a very striking abnegation of the director's normal freedoms.
- Will the discursive spaces within the left be divided into radical, semi-radical, not-so radical, etc. depending on abnegation of one's own particularism?
- Judging School Discipline casts a backward glance at the roots of this dilemma to show how a laudable concern for civil liberties forty years ago has resulted in oppressive abnegation of adult responsibility now.
- What is more surprising, and indeed an abnegation of the responsibilities of leadership, is when politicians - local and national - are prepared to ignore the evidence and meekly go along with the unreasonable demands of the industry.
- This abnegation would help explain his supposed artistic decline.
- This has nothing whatsoever to do with submission or with abnegation.
- While Alice's suicide may be seen as an act of emotional weakness or an act of familial abnegation, it is not.
- Given that the abnegation of the ego is enjoined by almost every spiritual tradition, this becomes relevant across the spectrum of faiths.
- But it suggests an abnegation of responsibility; after all, serial killers often think they're doing God's work too.
- The third story was the most autobiographical one, built in part around my own struggles with my family and their abnegation of any feeling of responsibility.
- However, the industry's subsequent abnegation of customer care really gets Davies' blood boiling.
- Though this has been portrayed as genuine consultation, in fact the lack of any real, driving ideas about educational reform is an abnegation of political responsibility.
- It is part of the abnegation of learning and the senseless worship of youth that now distort our values.
- Moreover, Llewellyn's almost complete abnegation of issues of style, iconography, authorship, or artistic quality results in a rather restricted view of the monuments as mere historical objects, as products of an industry.
- These acted as a justification both for abnegation by government and for the informal and non-legal manner in which the Bank has purported to police bank behaviour.
- It is a film that valorizes the abnegation of moral responsibility, and the poise and precision of its craft draws us into a willing suspension of our instinctive sense of what is life-affirming and good.
- Do NOT allow a few sundry Lieutenant-Colonels or Grade Five public servants alone swing for this shameful abnegation of Ministerial responsibility.
- Professor Haroon Mustafa Leon elaborates: ‘one of the glories of Islam is that it is founded on reason, and that it never demands from its followers an abnegation of that important mental faculty.’
- It is frustrating to witness the abnegation of human rights on such a foolish cause.
Synonyms
renunciation, rejection, refusal, abandonment, abdication, surrender, giving up, relinquishment, abjuration, repudiation, denial, eschewal, disavowal, casting aside
1. 1.1 Self-denial.
  克己
  people are capable of abnegation and unselfishness
  Example sentencesExamples
  The same holds for those particular settings where abnegation and impersonality are required.
  In his obituary, The Times recorded that ‘Wittgenstein showed the characteristics of a religious contemplative of the hermit type’, and referred to his extreme abnegation and retirement.
  I would like to think that by now I am free, but though I have a lot of positive emotion associated with my sexuality, I believe I will never escape fully from the abnegation.
  The Church could become the Church, in his view, only if it, too, made the self-referential gesture of abnegation.
  He has asked in our act of faith an abnegation analogous to that of his Son.
  And the critic Ba'al Makhshoves goes one step further, ascribing some familiar elements of the Jewish sense of humour to the stetl life of holy abnegation.
  Sin is the estrangement between God and humans instigated by human defiance or abnegation.
  Known as Sufi (literal meaning - wool, as in ascetics who wore woolen garments), they opted for solitude and abnegation, renouncing physical comforts.
  There is both a politics and a delight in this, and both are contingent on abnegation.
  As many Catholics and Anglicans take a trip to church to receive their ashes as a sign of repentance, a growing number of other Christian faiths reject the 40-day season of abnegation and fasting in favour of year-round righteousness.
  Raw eggs being the only foodstuff she would consume while suffering the throes of religious abnegation.
  In isolation, Joan's virginity could signify an abnegation furthering spirituality-a rejection of the worldly in favor of the otherworldly, as in the assertions of nuns and virgin martyrs that their spouse is Christ.
  Built using a surprising array of materials and techniques, each dress focuses on primal elements of human nature - the soul, memory, seduction, abnegation.
  At this point in the play, folk culture of Lenten abnegation and christening joy collides with mannered personal interaction and judgmental asperity.
  Instead, it surely refers to a state of total stillness and even abnegation, an ideal that religious adepts of all disciplines have long aspired to.
  These privileges were the reward for the abnegation and servility demanded of Party functionaries.
  Many critics, theorists, and philosophers have phlegmatically resigned themselves to this space of abnegation.
  You lose yourself in it so much you find yourself creating scenarios to fit the songs from your own experiences, you alter the past and indulge in power fantasies of abnegation and collapse.
  Synonyms
  self-denial, self-sacrifice, abstinence, temperance, continence, asceticism, abstemiousness, austerity, renunciation, resignation

Origin

Middle English: from Latin abnegatio(n-), from the verb abnegare (see abnegate).

Definition of abnegation in US English:

abnegation

nounˌæbnəˈɡeɪʃ(ə)nˌabnəˈɡāSH(ə)n

1The act of renouncing or rejecting something.
放弃，拒绝
abnegation of political lawmaking power
放弃政治立法权。
Example sentencesExamples
- Given that the abnegation of the ego is enjoined by almost every spiritual tradition, this becomes relevant across the spectrum of faiths.
- This has nothing whatsoever to do with submission or with abnegation.
- Professor Haroon Mustafa Leon elaborates: ‘one of the glories of Islam is that it is founded on reason, and that it never demands from its followers an abnegation of that important mental faculty.’
- It seems to a bemused outsider at times as if the country must have its own cultural variant of masochistic puritanism, a collective desire for the penitential abnegation of prosperity and all its works.
- Moreover, Llewellyn's almost complete abnegation of issues of style, iconography, authorship, or artistic quality results in a rather restricted view of the monuments as mere historical objects, as products of an industry.
- While Alice's suicide may be seen as an act of emotional weakness or an act of familial abnegation, it is not.
- Kiarostami's strict two-camera-position approach is a very striking abnegation of the director's normal freedoms.
- Do NOT allow a few sundry Lieutenant-Colonels or Grade Five public servants alone swing for this shameful abnegation of Ministerial responsibility.
- It is frustrating to witness the abnegation of human rights on such a foolish cause.
- Judging School Discipline casts a backward glance at the roots of this dilemma to show how a laudable concern for civil liberties forty years ago has resulted in oppressive abnegation of adult responsibility now.
- This abnegation would help explain his supposed artistic decline.
- But it suggests an abnegation of responsibility; after all, serial killers often think they're doing God's work too.
- Will the discursive spaces within the left be divided into radical, semi-radical, not-so radical, etc. depending on abnegation of one's own particularism?
- What is more surprising, and indeed an abnegation of the responsibilities of leadership, is when politicians - local and national - are prepared to ignore the evidence and meekly go along with the unreasonable demands of the industry.
- It is a film that valorizes the abnegation of moral responsibility, and the poise and precision of its craft draws us into a willing suspension of our instinctive sense of what is life-affirming and good.
- These acted as a justification both for abnegation by government and for the informal and non-legal manner in which the Bank has purported to police bank behaviour.
- However, the industry's subsequent abnegation of customer care really gets Davies' blood boiling.
- It is part of the abnegation of learning and the senseless worship of youth that now distort our values.
- The third story was the most autobiographical one, built in part around my own struggles with my family and their abnegation of any feeling of responsibility.
- Though this has been portrayed as genuine consultation, in fact the lack of any real, driving ideas about educational reform is an abnegation of political responsibility.
Synonyms
renunciation, rejection, refusal, abandonment, abdication, surrender, giving up, relinquishment, abjuration, repudiation, denial, eschewal, disavowal, casting aside
1. 1.1 Self-denial.
  克己
  Example sentencesExamples
  You lose yourself in it so much you find yourself creating scenarios to fit the songs from your own experiences, you alter the past and indulge in power fantasies of abnegation and collapse.
  I would like to think that by now I am free, but though I have a lot of positive emotion associated with my sexuality, I believe I will never escape fully from the abnegation.
  The Church could become the Church, in his view, only if it, too, made the self-referential gesture of abnegation.
  In isolation, Joan's virginity could signify an abnegation furthering spirituality-a rejection of the worldly in favor of the otherworldly, as in the assertions of nuns and virgin martyrs that their spouse is Christ.
  Built using a surprising array of materials and techniques, each dress focuses on primal elements of human nature - the soul, memory, seduction, abnegation.
  Known as Sufi (literal meaning - wool, as in ascetics who wore woolen garments), they opted for solitude and abnegation, renouncing physical comforts.
  And the critic Ba'al Makhshoves goes one step further, ascribing some familiar elements of the Jewish sense of humour to the stetl life of holy abnegation.
  Raw eggs being the only foodstuff she would consume while suffering the throes of religious abnegation.
  These privileges were the reward for the abnegation and servility demanded of Party functionaries.
  Sin is the estrangement between God and humans instigated by human defiance or abnegation.
  The same holds for those particular settings where abnegation and impersonality are required.
  At this point in the play, folk culture of Lenten abnegation and christening joy collides with mannered personal interaction and judgmental asperity.
  He has asked in our act of faith an abnegation analogous to that of his Son.
  There is both a politics and a delight in this, and both are contingent on abnegation.
  As many Catholics and Anglicans take a trip to church to receive their ashes as a sign of repentance, a growing number of other Christian faiths reject the 40-day season of abnegation and fasting in favour of year-round righteousness.
  Many critics, theorists, and philosophers have phlegmatically resigned themselves to this space of abnegation.
  Instead, it surely refers to a state of total stillness and even abnegation, an ideal that religious adepts of all disciplines have long aspired to.
  In his obituary, The Times recorded that ‘Wittgenstein showed the characteristics of a religious contemplative of the hermit type’, and referred to his extreme abnegation and retirement.
  Synonyms
  self-denial, self-sacrifice, abstinence, temperance, continence, asceticism, abstemiousness, austerity, renunciation, resignation

Origin

Middle English: from Latin abnegatio(n-), from the verb abnegare (see abnegate).

单词	abnegation
释义	Definition of abnegation in English: abnegation noun abnɪˈɡeɪʃ(ə)nˌæbnəˈɡeɪʃ(ə)n mass noun 1The action of renouncing or rejecting something. 放弃，拒绝 abnegation of political power 放弃政治立法权。 Example sentencesExamples It seems to a bemused outsider at times as if the country must have its own cultural variant of masochistic puritanism, a collective desire for the penitential abnegation of prosperity and all its works. Kiarostami's strict two-camera-position approach is a very striking abnegation of the director's normal freedoms. Will the discursive spaces within the left be divided into radical, semi-radical, not-so radical, etc. depending on abnegation of one's own particularism? Judging School Discipline casts a backward glance at the roots of this dilemma to show how a laudable concern for civil liberties forty years ago has resulted in oppressive abnegation of adult responsibility now. What is more surprising, and indeed an abnegation of the responsibilities of leadership, is when politicians - local and national - are prepared to ignore the evidence and meekly go along with the unreasonable demands of the industry. This abnegation would help explain his supposed artistic decline. This has nothing whatsoever to do with submission or with abnegation. While Alice's suicide may be seen as an act of emotional weakness or an act of familial abnegation, it is not. Given that the abnegation of the ego is enjoined by almost every spiritual tradition, this becomes relevant across the spectrum of faiths. But it suggests an abnegation of responsibility; after all, serial killers often think they're doing God's work too. The third story was the most autobiographical one, built in part around my own struggles with my family and their abnegation of any feeling of responsibility. However, the industry's subsequent abnegation of customer care really gets Davies' blood boiling. Though this has been portrayed as genuine consultation, in fact the lack of any real, driving ideas about educational reform is an abnegation of political responsibility. It is part of the abnegation of learning and the senseless worship of youth that now distort our values. Moreover, Llewellyn's almost complete abnegation of issues of style, iconography, authorship, or artistic quality results in a rather restricted view of the monuments as mere historical objects, as products of an industry. These acted as a justification both for abnegation by government and for the informal and non-legal manner in which the Bank has purported to police bank behaviour. It is a film that valorizes the abnegation of moral responsibility, and the poise and precision of its craft draws us into a willing suspension of our instinctive sense of what is life-affirming and good. Do NOT allow a few sundry Lieutenant-Colonels or Grade Five public servants alone swing for this shameful abnegation of Ministerial responsibility. Professor Haroon Mustafa Leon elaborates: ‘one of the glories of Islam is that it is founded on reason, and that it never demands from its followers an abnegation of that important mental faculty.’ It is frustrating to witness the abnegation of human rights on such a foolish cause. Synonyms renunciation, rejection, refusal, abandonment, abdication, surrender, giving up, relinquishment, abjuration, repudiation, denial, eschewal, disavowal, casting aside 1.1 Self-denial. 克己 people are capable of abnegation and unselfishness Example sentencesExamples The same holds for those particular settings where abnegation and impersonality are required. In his obituary, The Times* recorded that ‘Wittgenstein showed the characteristics of a religious contemplative of the hermit type’, and referred to his extreme abnegation and retirement.* I would like to think that by now I am free, but though I have a lot of positive emotion associated with my sexuality, I believe I will never escape fully from the abnegation. The Church could become the Church, in his view, only if it, too, made the self-referential gesture of abnegation. He has asked in our act of faith an abnegation analogous to that of his Son. And the critic Ba'al Makhshoves goes one step further, ascribing some familiar elements of the Jewish sense of humour to the stetl life of holy abnegation. Sin is the estrangement between God and humans instigated by human defiance or abnegation. Known as Sufi (literal meaning - wool, as in ascetics who wore woolen garments), they opted for solitude and abnegation, renouncing physical comforts. There is both a politics and a delight in this, and both are contingent on abnegation. As many Catholics and Anglicans take a trip to church to receive their ashes as a sign of repentance, a growing number of other Christian faiths reject the 40-day season of abnegation and fasting in favour of year-round righteousness. Raw eggs being the only foodstuff she would consume while suffering the throes of religious abnegation. In isolation, Joan's virginity could signify an abnegation furthering spirituality-a rejection of the worldly in favor of the otherworldly, as in the assertions of nuns and virgin martyrs that their spouse is Christ. Built using a surprising array of materials and techniques, each dress focuses on primal elements of human nature - the soul, memory, seduction, abnegation. At this point in the play, folk culture of Lenten abnegation and christening joy collides with mannered personal interaction and judgmental asperity. Instead, it surely refers to a state of total stillness and even abnegation, an ideal that religious adepts of all disciplines have long aspired to. These privileges were the reward for the abnegation and servility demanded of Party functionaries. Many critics, theorists, and philosophers have phlegmatically resigned themselves to this space of abnegation. You lose yourself in it so much you find yourself creating scenarios to fit the songs from your own experiences, you alter the past and indulge in power fantasies of abnegation and collapse. Synonyms self-denial, self-sacrifice, abstinence, temperance, continence, asceticism, abstemiousness, austerity, renunciation, resignation Origin Middle English: from Latin abnegatio(n-), from the verb abnegare (see abnegate). Definition of abnegation in US English: abnegation nounˌæbnəˈɡeɪʃ(ə)nˌabnəˈɡāSH(ə)n 1The act of renouncing or rejecting something. 放弃，拒绝 abnegation of political lawmaking power 放弃政治立法权。 Example sentencesExamples Given that the abnegation of the ego is enjoined by almost every spiritual tradition, this becomes relevant across the spectrum of faiths. This has nothing whatsoever to do with submission or with abnegation. Professor Haroon Mustafa Leon elaborates: ‘one of the glories of Islam is that it is founded on reason, and that it never demands from its followers an abnegation of that important mental faculty.’ It seems to a bemused outsider at times as if the country must have its own cultural variant of masochistic puritanism, a collective desire for the penitential abnegation of prosperity and all its works. Moreover, Llewellyn's almost complete abnegation of issues of style, iconography, authorship, or artistic quality results in a rather restricted view of the monuments as mere historical objects, as products of an industry. While Alice's suicide may be seen as an act of emotional weakness or an act of familial abnegation, it is not. Kiarostami's strict two-camera-position approach is a very striking abnegation of the director's normal freedoms. Do NOT allow a few sundry Lieutenant-Colonels or Grade Five public servants alone swing for this shameful abnegation of Ministerial responsibility. It is frustrating to witness the abnegation of human rights on such a foolish cause. Judging School Discipline casts a backward glance at the roots of this dilemma to show how a laudable concern for civil liberties forty years ago has resulted in oppressive abnegation of adult responsibility now. This abnegation would help explain his supposed artistic decline. But it suggests an abnegation of responsibility; after all, serial killers often think they're doing God's work too. Will the discursive spaces within the left be divided into radical, semi-radical, not-so radical, etc. depending on abnegation of one's own particularism? What is more surprising, and indeed an abnegation of the responsibilities of leadership, is when politicians - local and national - are prepared to ignore the evidence and meekly go along with the unreasonable demands of the industry. It is a film that valorizes the abnegation of moral responsibility, and the poise and precision of its craft draws us into a willing suspension of our instinctive sense of what is life-affirming and good. These acted as a justification both for abnegation by government and for the informal and non-legal manner in which the Bank has purported to police bank behaviour. However, the industry's subsequent abnegation of customer care really gets Davies' blood boiling. It is part of the abnegation of learning and the senseless worship of youth that now distort our values. The third story was the most autobiographical one, built in part around my own struggles with my family and their abnegation of any feeling of responsibility. Though this has been portrayed as genuine consultation, in fact the lack of any real, driving ideas about educational reform is an abnegation of political responsibility. Synonyms renunciation, rejection, refusal, abandonment, abdication, surrender, giving up, relinquishment, abjuration, repudiation, denial, eschewal, disavowal, casting aside 1.1 Self-denial. 克己 Example sentencesExamples You lose yourself in it so much you find yourself creating scenarios to fit the songs from your own experiences, you alter the past and indulge in power fantasies of abnegation and collapse. I would like to think that by now I am free, but though I have a lot of positive emotion associated with my sexuality, I believe I will never escape fully from the abnegation. The Church could become the Church, in his view, only if it, too, made the self-referential gesture of abnegation. In isolation, Joan's virginity could signify an abnegation furthering spirituality-a rejection of the worldly in favor of the otherworldly, as in the assertions of nuns and virgin martyrs that their spouse is Christ. Built using a surprising array of materials and techniques, each dress focuses on primal elements of human nature - the soul, memory, seduction, abnegation. Known as Sufi (literal meaning - wool, as in ascetics who wore woolen garments), they opted for solitude and abnegation, renouncing physical comforts. And the critic Ba'al Makhshoves goes one step further, ascribing some familiar elements of the Jewish sense of humour to the stetl life of holy abnegation. Raw eggs being the only foodstuff she would consume while suffering the throes of religious abnegation. These privileges were the reward for the abnegation and servility demanded of Party functionaries. Sin is the estrangement between God and humans instigated by human defiance or abnegation. The same holds for those particular settings where abnegation and impersonality are required. At this point in the play, folk culture of Lenten abnegation and christening joy collides with mannered personal interaction and judgmental asperity. He has asked in our act of faith an abnegation analogous to that of his Son. There is both a politics and a delight in this, and both are contingent on abnegation. As many Catholics and Anglicans take a trip to church to receive their ashes as a sign of repentance, a growing number of other Christian faiths reject the 40-day season of abnegation and fasting in favour of year-round righteousness. Many critics, theorists, and philosophers have phlegmatically resigned themselves to this space of abnegation. Instead, it surely refers to a state of total stillness and even abnegation, an ideal that religious adepts of all disciplines have long aspired to. In his obituary, The Times* recorded that ‘Wittgenstein showed the characteristics of a religious contemplative of the hermit type’, and referred to his extreme abnegation and retirement.* Synonyms self-denial, self-sacrifice, abstinence, temperance, continence, asceticism, abstemiousness, austerity, renunciation, resignation Origin Middle English: from Latin abnegatio(n-), from the verb abnegare (see abnegate).
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