What's the difference between abnegate and abstinent?

Abnegate


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To deny and reject; to abjure.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Although he could be lovable, charming, whimsical, encouraging, and deeply devoted to his family, he subjugated the adult women in his household and at least one son to exploitation and abuse, demanding (and receiving from his wife and step-daughter) almost total abnegation of self.
  • (2) The atmosphere and the spirit of enthusiasm and dedication is described, as well as the faith, the bravery and the self abnegation with which the Greek soldiers fought in the Albanian mountains and the Greek nurses in their own battle field, in the health care Army establishments for the treatment and relief of the brave wounded and sick warriors.
  • (3) Moreover, in socio-political terms, a reduced problem-even one representing potential for future catastrophe-tends to claim less priority than present problems, even though premature redeployment of resources may abnegate gains already achieved.
  • (4) The nurses are abnegate and altruists and the social workers has initiative and acceptance of their identity.
  • (5) The second stream is that of the austere transcendentalists of the arthouse – Yasujiro Ozu, Robert Bresson, Carl Dreyer – who, recognising the over-abundant, material “fallen” nature of the medium, pursue an aesthetic of scarcity, sparseness, abnegation.
  • (6) However, conditions which abnegate proofreading by E. coli polymerase I have little effect on the herpes enzymes.
  • (7) In his historical novel, August 1914, published in the west in 1971, he painted a rosy picture of pre-revolutionary Russia, and in three essays for a samizdat collection inspired and masterminded by him, From Under the Rubble, he praised Russia's Orthodox church and authoritarian political tradition, developed the idea that nations, as well as individuals, should practise the Christian virtues of repentance and self-abnegation, and excoriated the Russian intelligentsia for selling out to Soviet power in exchange for material privileges.
  • (8) Though I do know one thing: Kim Jong-Un is someone who makes Rudin’s power-mania look like a model of self-abnegating restraint.
  • (9) But they were also transcendent, effecting her transformation in the public mind from self-involved socialite to self-abnegating spouse.

Abstinent


Definition:

  • (a.) Refraining from indulgence, especially from the indulgence of appetite; abstemious; continent; temperate.
  • (n.) One who abstains.
  • (n.) One of a sect who appeared in France and Spain in the 3d century.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The clinical usefulness of neonatal narcotic abstinence scales is reviewed, with special reference to their application in treatment.
  • (2) Within a treatment program, the use of various kinds of assessment methods and treatment modalities did not appear to be closely associated with the endorsement of abstinence vs nonabstinence treatment goals.
  • (3) In 227 smokers' clinic clients who managed at least one week of abstinence, ratings of withdrawal symptoms were used to predict subsequent return to smoking.
  • (4) Focus in this discussion is on the following: 1) female sterilization -- laparotomy, minilaparotomy, and colpotomy; endoscopic sterilization techniques; transcervical approaches to female sterilization; systemic nonsurgical female sterilization; and reversible techniques of female sterilization; 2) abortion -- pregnancy testing, long-term effects; and 3) systemic contraceptives -- steroidal contraception; locally active methods; vaginal foams, creams, and jellies; the diaphragm and other intravaginal barriers; IUDs; and periodic abstine nce.
  • (5) The convulsive episodes had several maxima during the abstinence period.
  • (6) The urinary HOP ratio immediately after abstinence from smoking was proportional to the mean daily number of cigarettes smoked in the past.
  • (7) Nine completed a 7-week trial, and eight maintained abstinence for at least 1 month as outpatients.
  • (8) All of these involve detection of the time of ovulation combined with abstinence during the fertile period of the cycle.
  • (9) In the light of these findings, our results suggest that the mechanism of aminoglycoside-induced inhibition of morphine abstinence may be related to the capacity of these antibiotics to block N-type calcium channels, and to decrease neuronal calcium availability.
  • (10) Infants prenatally exposed to narcotics become passively addicted in-utero and may undergo neonatal abstinence at birth.
  • (11) Each of 12 male habitual smokers with coronary artery disease was given dipyridamole (75 mg) and aspirin (324 mg), dipyridamole (75 mg) and placebo for aspirin, or a placebo for each drug 3 times daily for 1 week before each of three 20-minute periods (separated by 2 weeks) of smoking 2 cigarettes after a 12-hour period of abstinence.
  • (12) Orthostatic hypotension may also be observed in alcoholics during continuing abstinence from alcohol; in some of these patients failure of reflex noradrenaline release in response to standing may contribute to orthostatic hypotension.
  • (13) Naloxone, naltrexone, and cyclazocine precipitated abstinence syndrome which the animals generally controlled with increased morphine intake.
  • (14) From the viewpoint of behavioral biology, however, the method of periodic abstinence is not obviously natural.
  • (15) Abstinence phenomena largely disappeared within 10 days of discontinuation.
  • (16) The HDL2 mass concentration decreased significantly already during two abstinent days the decline continuing until the 8th day.
  • (17) The pharmacodynamic changes induced by smoking were generally most pronounced after the first cigarette following 10 hours' abstinence.
  • (18) Former users of alcohol, cigarettes, or illegal drugs achieved remarkable abstinence records.
  • (19) The WBC count showed only a small increase with longer abstinence periods.
  • (20) Alterations in ERP components, when they did occur, occurred under the acute influence of ethanol, as well as in abstinent chronic alcoholics.