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English
Etymology
From Latin abnegativus.
Pronunciation
Adjective
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
Latin
Adjective
abnegātīve
- vocative masculine singular of abnegātīvus