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Abnegate vs. Abrogate — What's the Difference?

Abnegate vs. Abrogate — What's the Difference?

Difference Between Abnegate and Abrogate

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Abnegate

To give up (rights or a claim, for example); renounce.

Abrogate

Repeal or do away with (a law, right, or formal agreement)
A proposal to abrogate temporarily the right to strike

Abnegate

To deny (something) to oneself
The minister abnegated the luxuries of life.

Abrogate

Evade (a responsibility or duty)
We believe the board is abrogating its responsibilities to its shareholders

Abnegate

(transitive) To deny (oneself something); to renounce or give up (a right, a power, a claim, a privilege, a convenience).
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Abrogate

To abolish, do away with, or annul, especially by authority
"Our existing Aboriginal and treaty rights were now part of the supreme law of the land, and could not be abrogated or denied by any government" (Matthew Coon Come).

Abnegate

(transitive) To relinquish; to surrender; to abjure.

Abrogate

To annul by an authoritative act; to abolish by the authority of the maker or her or his successor; to repeal; — applied to the repeal of laws, decrees, ordinances, the abolition of customs, etc.

Abnegate

To deny and reject; to abjure.

Abrogate

(transitive) To put an end to; to do away with.

Abnegate

Deny oneself (something); restrain, especially from indulging in some pleasure;
She denied herself wine and spirits

Abrogate

To block a process or function.

Abnegate

Surrender;
The King abnegated his power to the ministers

Abrogate

(archaic) Abrogated; abolished.

Abnegate

Deny or renounce;
They abnegated their gods

Abrogate

Abrogated; abolished.

Abrogate

To annul by an authoritative act; to abolish by the authority of the maker or his successor; to repeal; - applied to the repeal of laws, decrees, ordinances, the abolition of customs, etc.
Let us see whether the New Testament abrogates what we so frequently see in the Old.
Whose laws, like those of the Medes and Persian, they can not alter or abrogate.

Abrogate

To put an end to; to do away with.

Abrogate

Revoke formally

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