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What is an abnegation?

What is an abnegation? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. A denial; a renunciation; denial of desire or self-interest. [First attested around 1350 to 1470.]
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It is part of the abnegation of learning and the senseless worship of youth that now distort our values.
While Alice's suicide may be seen as an act of emotional weakness or an act of familial abnegation, it is not.
The Church could become the Church, in his view, only if it, too, made the self-referential gesture of abnegation.
He has asked in our act of faith an abnegation analogous to that of his Son.
Kiarostami's strict two-camera-position approach is a very striking abnegation of the director's normal freedoms.
The same holds for those particular settings where abnegation and impersonality are required.

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