Definition of "abnegates" []

• Third-person singular simple present indicative form of abnegate. (verb)

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• "Although I like the story, I find it tragic and wrong that the mother completely abnegates herself as a person to keep her daughter from suspecting how much she loves her."
• "Moreover, what price will society at large pay for training, arming, and rewarding the kind of mindset that unilaterally, and universally, abnegates responsibility both as a critically-thinking commanding officer, and as a moral human being."
• "Now that her task is done, she abnegates at once (and thankfully) the first person singular in favour of the third, and whatever is told of her in the following pages, is told, not by herself, but by that other pen, of which mention is made above."