Abnegate

Do not abnegate your authority.

Even under a deluge of scandal, the shameless politician would not abnegate their post.

It is not the intention of the government to apportion blame or to abnegate responsibility.

To compel a state, upon theories of doubtful statutory interpretation, to appear as defendant suitor in its own courts, and to litigate with private parties as to whether it had abnegated its sovereignty of exemption, would be intolerable.

All ancient and modern histories of nations abnegate God.