Abnegative

//æbˈnɛɡətɪv// adj

adj ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Denying; renouncing; negative obsolete, rare

    "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"

Example

More examples

"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"

Etymology

From Latin abnegativus.

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