abnegating

Verb

abnegate (third-person singular simple present abnegates, present participle abnegating, simple past and past participle abnegated)

1. (transitive) To deny (oneself something); to renounce or give up (a right, a power, a claim, a privilege, a convenience).
   • To compel a state, upon theories of doubtful statutory interpretation, to appear as defendant suitor in its own courts, and to litigate with private parties as to whether it had abnegated its sovereignty of exemption, would be intolerable.1898 December 10, “Asbell v. State”, in The Pacific Reporter, volume 55, page 339
2. (transitive) To relinquish; to surrender; to abjure.