English-Thai Dictionary
abnegate
VT ละทิ้ง ล้มเลิก lah-ting
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
ABNEGATE
v.t.To deny. [Not used. ]
Webster's 1913 Dictionary
ABNEGATE
Ab "ne *gate, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Abnegated; p. pr. & vb. n.Abnegating.] Etym: [L. abnegatus,p. p. of abnegare; ab + negare to deny. See Deny. ]
Defn: To deny and reject; to abjure. Sir E. Sandys. Farrar.
New American Oxford Dictionary
abnegate
ab ne gate |ˈabniˌgāt ˈæbnəˌɡeɪt | ▶verb [ with obj. ] renounce or reject (something desired or valuable ): he attempts to abnegate personal responsibility. DERIVATIVES ab ne ga tor |-ˌgātər |noun ORIGIN early 17th cent.: from Latin abnegat- ‘renounced, ’ from the verb abnegare, from ab- ‘away, off ’ + negare ‘deny. ’
Oxford Dictionary
abnegate
abnegate |ˈabnɪgeɪt | ▶verb [ with obj. ] formal renounce or reject (something desired or valuable ): he attempts to abnegate personal responsibility. DERIVATIVES abnegator noun ORIGIN early 17th cent.: from Latin abnegat- ‘renounced ’, from the verb abnegare, from ab- ‘away, off ’ + negare ‘deny ’.
Oxford Thesaurus
abnegate
abnegate verb he cannot abnegate the responsibility which the choice confers on him: 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. ANTONYMS accept.
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