abnegate

/ˈæbnɪɡˌe‍ɪt/

/ˈæbnɪɡˌeɪt/

[verb]

to abnegate

[VERB]

MAIN VERB

deny or renounce

surrender (power or a position)

deny oneself (something); restrain, especially from indulging in some pleasure

synonyms : deny

Examples

1. And if not, how is law abnegated, rather than just sort of moved from one side to the other?

2. We never ask enough what politicians, presidents of universities, funding councils, successful bankers, have failed to do, and how they've just abnegated the duties of leadership.

3. That is, it's a strictly internal legal argument that goes through area after area and tries to build up, through fit and justification, the thesis that law has abnegated its imperial portentions.