Pronounced: PLOO-vee-uhl, adj
Notes: I have a recollection of having run across this word in reading a long time ago, but I just couldn’t quite remember the definition.
Yesterday’s word
The word abnegation means “self-denial”.
Background
It comes from Latin abnegation, made up of ab- (away or off) and negare (to deny).
First usage
The word was first used in the late 1300s.
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