In those days the strong made no pretence to protect the weak, or to abnegate their natural power.
"Hodge and His Masters"
Richard Jefferies
She spurns the doctrine that it is woman's position to abnegate and to immolate herself.
"The Salamander"
Owen Johnson
He readily forgot the fact that he had himself been the first to initiate them into the rudiments of vice-to induce them to abnegate their self-respect, and to brave the opinion of the world and their own reproaches-while he could not brook that they should reduce him to a level with one of his own subjects, and that they should so far emancipate themselves as to feel a preference for younger and more attractive men when they had been honoured by his notice.
"The Life of Marie de Medicis, Vol. 1 (of 3)"
Julia Pardoe