Disaffirm vs Abnegate - What's the difference?
disaffirm | abnegate |
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 disaffirm and abnegate
is that disaffirm is to deny, contradict or repudiate while abnegate is to deny (oneself something); to renounce or give up (a right, a power, a claim, a privilege, a convenience) .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.
