abnegative
English
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Borrowed from Latin abnegativus.
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /æbˈnɛɡətɪv/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
Adjective
[edit]abnegative (comparative more abnegative, superlative most abnegative) (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
Translations
[edit]denying; renouncing; negative
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Latin
[edit]Adjective
[edit]abnegātīve
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