abnegate

• As we call on science to explain, elaborate, and justify issues in civil and personal life, we need to be careful that we don't abnegate our responsibility to monitor the effects of this intervention. —  The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com
• I think it's strange that we're still talking about the "liberal media" after the spectacular failure of the MSM in the run-up to the Iraq war, to give just one example of how the fear of being pegged as biased caused journalists to abnegate their sacred responsibility to speak truth to power. about current —  US_Homepage_Featured_Stories
• Most importantly, I would have to abnegate my certain understanding that you have chosen to sprint down the road to serfdom that we have been on for over a century. —  Argghhh! The Home Of Two Of Jonah's Military Guys..
• And still I stood with closed hands in the shade of the tree; and the people cried out that I was holy, and placed their offerings in my bowl; and I could not make up my mind to abnegate the title they gave me and become as they were. —  The Argosy Vol. 51, No. 4, April, 1891
• The fact of so little cultivation does not abnegate the existence of industry on the part of the villagers. —  The War Trail The Hunt of the Wild Horse

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