Disown vs Abnegate - What's the difference?
disown | abnegate | Synonyms |
To refuse to own or to refuse to acknowledge one’s own.
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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Disown is a synonym of abnegate.
As verbs the difference between disown and abnegate
is that disown is to refuse to own or to refuse to acknowledge one’s own while abnegate is to deny (oneself something); to renounce or give up (a right, a power, a claim, a privilege, a convenience) .disown
English
Verb
(en verb)- Lord Capulet and his wife threatened to ''disown'' their daughter Juliet if she didn't go through with marrying Count Paris.
Usage notes
Particularly used of parents regarding their children, and stronger than the similar estrange, which can also be used of children regarding their parents, or of siblings.Synonyms
* disavow * disclaimabnegate
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.
