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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