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Disaffirm vs Abnegate - What's the difference?

disaffirm | abnegate |

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) .

disaffirm

English

Verb

(en verb)
  • To deny, contradict or repudiate
  • 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

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