'abnegation' in The Complete Short Stories | Bookmarker

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(noun) the act of renouncing or rejecting something; self-denial

an unavoidable approach, but one that was palliated by the caution and self-abnegation with which I drew my conclusions

—p.183 The Village Schoolmaster [The Giant Mole] (180) by Franz Kafka

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