Cancel vs Abnegate - What's the difference?
cancel | abnegate |
To cross out something with lines etc.
* Blackstone
To invalidate or annul something.
* 1914 , (Marjorie Benton Cooke), Bambi
*:"I don't know what your agreement was, Herr Professor, but if it had money in it, cancel it. I want him to learn that lesson, too."
To mark something (such as a used postage stamp) so that it can't be reused.
To offset or equalize something.
(mathematics) To remove a common factor from both the numerator and denominator of a fraction, or from both sides of an equation.
(media) To stop production of a programme.
(printing, dated) To suppress or omit; to strike out, as matter in type.
(obsolete) To shut out, as with a railing or with latticework; to exclude.
* Milton
(slang) To kill.
A cancellation (US ); (nonstandard in some kinds of English).
# (Internet) A control message posted to Usenet that serves to cancel a previously posted message.
(obsolete) An inclosure; a boundary; a limit.
(printing) The suppression on striking out of matter in type, or of a printed page or pages.
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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In lang=en terms the difference between cancel and abnegate
is that cancel is to offset or equalize something while abnegate is to relinquish; to surrender; to abjure .As verbs the difference between cancel and abnegate
is that cancel is to cross out something with lines etc while abnegate is to deny (oneself something); to renounce or give up (a right, a power, a claim, a privilege, a convenience) .As a noun cancel
is a cancellation (us ); (nonstandard in some kinds of english).cancel
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Alternative forms
* cancell (obsolete)Verb
- A deed may be avoided by delivering it up to be cancelled ; that is, to have lines drawn over it in the form of latticework or cancelli; the phrase is now used figuratively for any manner of obliterating or defacing it.
- He cancelled his order on their website.
- This machine cancels the letters that have a valid zip code.
- The corrective feedback mechanism cancels out the noise.
- cancelled from heaven
Synonyms
*Noun
(en noun)- A prison is but a retirement, and opportunity of serious thoughts, to a person whose spiritdesires no enlargement beyond the cancels of the body. — Jeremy Taylor.
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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.
