abnegative

English

Etymology

From Latin abnegativus.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /æbˈnɛɡətɪv/
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Adjective

abnegative (comparative more abnegative, superlative most abnegative)

  1. (obsolete, rare): Denying; renouncing; negative
    • 1872, Sara Jane Lippincott, New Life in New Lands:
      There is rather in their faces a quiet , baffling , negative , and abnegative expression , which certainly is as far from happy content as it is from desperate rebellion

Latin

Adjective

abnegātīve

  1. vocative masculine singular of abnegātīvus
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