abnegation

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: ab=ne=ga=tion

CIDE DICTIONARY

abnegation, n. [L. abnegatio: cf. F. abnégation.].

 a denial; a renunciation.  [1913 Webster]
"With abnegation of God, of his honor, and of religion, they may retain the friendship of the court."  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

abnegation, n.
1 denial; the rejection or renunciation of a doctrine.
2 = SELF-ABNEGATION.

Etymology

OF abnegation or LL abnegatio (as ABNEGATE)

THESAURUS

abnegation

abstinence, calm, calmness, conservatism, constraint, continence, contradiction, control, cool, declension, declination, declinature, declining, denial, deprivation, disagreement, disallowance, disclaimer, disclamation, disobedience, dispassion, dissent, evenness, forbearance, frugality, gentleness, golden mean, happy medium, holding back, impartiality, judiciousness, juste-milieu, lenity, meden agan, middle way, mildness, moderateness, moderation, moderationism, nay, naysaying, negation, negative, negative answer, negative attitude, negativeness, negativism, negativity, neutrality, nix, no, nonacceptance, noncompliance, nonconsent, nonobservance, nonviolence, nothing in excess, pacifism, prudence, recantation, refusal, rejection, renouncement, renunciation, repose, repudiation, restraint, retention, self-abnegation, self-control, self-denial, self-discipline, self-mastery, self-restraint, serenity, soberness, sobriety, sophrosyne, stability, steadiness, temperance, temperateness, thumbs-down, tranquillity, turndown, unexcessiveness, unextravagance, unextremeness, unwillingness, via media, withholding

ROGET THESAURUS

abnegation

Refusal

N refusal, rejection, noncompliance, incompliance, denial, declining, declension, declinature, peremptory refusal, flat refusal, point blank refusal, repulse, rebuff, discountenance, recusancy, abnegation, protest, disclaimer, dissent, revocation, refusing, restive, restiff, recusant, uncomplying, unconsenting, not willing to hear of, deaf to, refused, ungranted, out of the question, not to be thought of, impossible, no, on no account, not for the world, no thank you, thanks but no thanks, non possumus, your humble servant, bien oblige, not on your life, no way, not even if you beg on your knees.

Temperance

N temperance, moderation, sobriety, soberness, forbearance, abnegation, self-denial, self-restraint, self-control, frugality, vegetarianism, teetotalism, total abstinence, abstinence, abstemiousness, Encratism, prohibition, system of Pythagoras, system of Cornaro, Pythagorism, Stoicism, vegetarian, Pythagorean, gymnosophist, teetotaler, abstainer, designated driver, Encratite, fruitarian, hydropot, temperate, moderate, sober, frugal, sparing, abstemious, abstinent, within compass, measured, on the wagon, on the water wagon, dry, Pythagorean, vegetarian, teetotal, appetitus rationi obediant, l'abstenir pour jouir c'est l'epicurisme de la rai, trahit sua quemque voluptas.

Negation

N negation, abnegation, denial, disavowal, disclaimer, abjuration, contradiction, contravention, recusation, protest, recusancy, flat contradiction, emphatic contradiction, emphatic denial, dementi, qualification, repudiation, retraction, confutation, refusal, prohibition, denying, denied, contradictory, negative, negatory, recusant, at issue upon, no, nay, not, nowise, not a bit, not a whit, not a jot, not at all, nohow, not in the least, not so, negative, negatory, no way, no such thing, nothing of the kind, nothing of the sort, quite the contrary, tout au contraire, far from it, tant s'en faut, on no account, in no respect, by no, by no manner of means, negatively, never, never in a million years, at no time, there never was a greater mistake, I know better, non haec in faedera, a thousand times no.