0 the act of not allowing yourself to have something, especially something you like or want: --
This is an abnegation of a very important principle.
It was the most shameful abnegation of responsibility that this country has ever known.
Simply to ask for a judicial inquiry about an essentially political decision is not an assumption of parliamentary responsibility, but an abnegation of it.
That was not an abnegation of his duty.
It is the complete abnegation of all patriotism, which should be next to religion, and, in point of fact, is no bad substitute for it.
That is what is sad about it: the complete abnegation and repudiation of authority, and the abnegation of moral responsibility—the running away.
Internationalism means the negation of patriotism and the abnegation of everything of which we should be proud.
Indeed, a failure to appreciate that is an abnegation of the very concept of government itself.
