What's the difference between abnegation and renunciation?

Abnegation


Definition:

  • (n.) a denial; a renunciation.

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.

Renunciation


Definition:

  • (n.) The act of renouncing.
  • (n.) Formal declination to take out letters of administration, or to assume an office, privilege, or right.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) • Written, oral and video statements of self-incrimination and self-renunciation by the detainees, apparently induced by the authorities, have been released through official media channels (for example, lawyer Zhang Kai was induced to make such a statement, which he later retracted).
  • (2) Nick Lowles, director of Hope Not Hate, which campaigns against extremism, said: "We celebrate Quilliam's efforts here but only a complete renunciation of the violence and hatred the EDL leaders have promoted, and a turning away from the anti-Muslim rhetoric they have championed, will be enough for the many thousands who have suffered from the EDL's ugly actions over the past three years."
  • (3) The systemic elaboration of anterior phases (individuation, couple) allows an integration of the new role and renunciation of the symptom.
  • (4) 7 StGB and a reduction respectively a renunciation of minimal period of revocation should give possibility to courts and reprieval authorities to ensure the inclusion of a large number of persons suitable for additional training and in cases of total abstinence traffic authority should regard the aptitude for participation in traffic as regranted.
  • (5) But Mazowiecki’s renunciation stabilised the eastern frontiers of the European Union.
  • (6) But it is no use the Guardian preaching renunciation.
  • (7) It is possible to renounce any information but renunciation of information assumes a basic knowledge of both possible kinds of treatment.
  • (8) That will require the formal and public renunciation of many of the policies on which the leadership election was won and the construction of a viable economic policy – a wholly legitimate process in a party which prides itself on being a broad church.
  • (9) From the giving up of smoking on the eve of his wedding, via the renunciation of his nominal religion and dropping of his name, to the abandonment of his career, Philip has proved himself the consummate royal wife.
  • (10) The further development, however, showed that the responsible and successful surgery in a special field-in the case of Kehr the surgery of the bile ducts-could only be performed with a far-reaching renunciation of other surgical activities.
  • (11) The renunciation of a sealer is the advantages of the procedure.
  • (12) "Essentially, it has to do with the renunciation of citizenship.
  • (13) What are probably his two best-known pieces of writing, his 1940 novel Darkness at Noon and his contribution to Richard Crossman's 1949 essay collection, The God That Failed , were both inspired by his painful renunciation of communism.
  • (14) In-depth interviews and participant observation was conducted with 14 Hindu religious renunciates, 70 years or older.
  • (15) The remedicalization of psychiatry does not mean the return to a reductionistic biomedical model of psychiatry or the renunciation of psychotherapy and psychodynamics.
  • (16) We cannot meet the secretary of state's public renunciation of violence, but it would be given privately as long as we were sure that we were not being tricked."
  • (17) Unprepared learning, which is often accompanied by failures on the first steps of learning, is suggested to produce renunciation of search, which decreases learning ability, suppress retention, and increase REM sleep requirement.
  • (18) (I have, incidentally, done a straw poll among my octogenarian contemporaries, and have found that the majority were as ignorant and shocked by the renunciation as I was.
  • (19) Presumably, the function of REM sleep is to compensate for renunciation of search in the waking period.
  • (20) There can be no voluntary renunciation of sovereign immunity, just as no person can sell himself into slavery.