Accede vs Abnegate - What's the difference?
accede | abnegate |
(archaic) To approach; to arrive, to come forward.
To agree or assent to a proposal or a view; to give way.
To come to an office, state or dignity; to attain, assume (a position).
* 2002 , , The Great Nation , Penguin 2003, p. 32:
To become a party to an agreement or a treaty.
To deny (oneself something); to renounce or give up (a right, a power, a claim, a privilege, a convenience).
* 1898 December 10, Asbell v. State'', reported in ''The Pacific Reporter , volume 55, page 339:
* 1875 January, Brownson's Quarterly Review , page 20:
To relinquish; to surrender; to abjure.
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As verbs the difference between accede and abnegate
is that accede is while abnegate is to deny (oneself something); to renounce or give up (a right, a power, a claim, a privilege, a convenience) .accede
English
Verb
(acced)- Maintenon had been governess to the children in the late 1670s before acceding to the king's favours.
Usage notes
Use with the word to afterwards ie. accede to .Synonyms
* agree, acquiesce, assent, comply, concur, consent, concedeDerived terms
* accedenceReferences
* ----abnegate
English
Verb
(abnegat)- To compel a state, upon theories of doubtful statutory interpretation, to appear as defendant suitor in its own courts, and to litigate with private parties as to whether it had abnegated its sovereignty of exemption, would be intolerable.
- All ancient and modern histories of nations abnegate God.