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Accede vs Abnegate - What's the difference?

accede | abnegate |

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)
  • (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:
  • Maintenon had been governess to the children in the late 1670s before acceding to the king's favours.
  • To become a party to an agreement or a treaty.
  • Usage notes

    Use with the word to afterwards ie. accede to .

    Synonyms

    * agree, acquiesce, assent, comply, concur, consent, concede

    Derived terms

    * accedence

    References

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    abnegate

    English

    Verb

    (abnegat)
  • 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:
  • 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.
  • * 1875 January, Brownson's Quarterly Review , page 20:
  • All ancient and modern histories of nations abnegate God.
  • To relinquish; to surrender; to abjure.
  • Derived terms

    * abnegator

    References

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