Thesaurus entry: abnegation

Article: Sour grapes, self-abnegation and character ...
The Monist;  April 1, 2003 ;     700+ words ... ... general reputations, as paths to self-delusion and to personal liberation ... how does it differ from resigned self-abnegation? The latter is also an intentionally undertaken process of preference self-induction, but most everyone except ...

Dictionary definition: self-abnegation
The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English;      206 words ...self-ab·ne·ga·tion • n. the denial or abasement of oneself: she turned the letter into a groveling form of self-abnegation.

Article: America's foreign policy of ...
Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service;  March 2, 1998 ;     700+ words ... ... destruction. How did our foreign policy end in this dismal act of self-abnegating surrender? How did we manage to fail so completely ... demand that our leaders righteously and intransigently protect our self-interest - and refuse to kowtow to any ``international consensus ...

Thesaurus entry: abnegation
The Oxford American Writers Thesaurus;      251 words ...abnegation • noun formal   1. a serious abnegation of their responsibilities synonyms : renunciation ... acceptance.   2. people capable of abnegation and unselfishness synonyms : self-denial, self-sacrifice, abstinence ...

Article: Lent a time of abnegation
Filipino Reporter;  March 25, 2004 ;     633 words ... ... sinful nation, a sinful people. None of us deserve the grace and love of Jesus. Left to our selfish ways, we would eventually self-destruct. Fortunately for us, we have a loving and forgiving God who gave us what we do not deserve. If God gave us what ...

Article: "I BELIEVE IN A BLACK AND WHITE WORLD, AND THE LOSING OF WEIGHT, ...
The Sunday Herald;  August 6, 2006 ;     700+ words ... ... site the Ana creed states, "I believe in a black and white world, and the losing of weight, recrimination for sins, the abnegation of the body and a life ever fasting." Yet what is worrying is not so much the dangerous lure of the websites themselves ...

Article: Focus on: 9/26-10/2 >Radiation; investigation; abnegation; ...
The Boston Globe;  October 3, 1999 ;     700+ words ...A big leak Thursday at a uranium-processing plant in northeastern Japan, 70 miles northeast of Tokyo, sent radiation levels skyrocketing and exposed 49 people to high levels of radiation. The accident happened when workers mixing fuel added too much uranium to a nitric acid base, setting off an