In their history of chemical weapons, "A Higher Form of Killing", two British journalists, Robert Harris and Jeremy Paxman, note that Raubkammer, where Germany tested its chemical weapons, was the only big military proving ground that Hitler never visited.Germany's abnegation was triply welcome.
But in other troubled European economies, abnegation is less evident.
Such abnegation has become a popular tactic in these anti-political times.
A gross abnegation of responsibility to their voters, says Mr Szajer.
This abnegation, most rare in a politician, did not go unappreciated.
Tris, who is living secretly as a "divergent" (someone who fits into more than one group), decides to leave the faction in which she was reared (Abnegation) for Dauntless.
In the course of time the primary motive for offering sacrificial gifts developed into homage, in which the sacrificer no longer expressed any hope for a return, and from homage into abnegation and renunciation, in which the sacrificer more fully offered himself.
It is also a vertiginous sensory experience, that simulates with dizzying effectiveness the abnegation of all of the usual Earthbound rules about which way is up and which way is down.
However, Sanctum is a larger than usual abnegation of control.
It would be an unforgivable moral abnegation for those of us who have both to deny those hopes to the long-suffering people of this region.
While that might sound like an abnegation of responsibility there was none of that here.
