ABNEGATE • FREE-TRANSLATOR.COM • Definition of Abnegate

... disgusting. The Parisianized Jews and the Judaicized Christians who frequented the theater had introduced into it the usual hash of sentiment which is the distinctive feature of a degenerate cosmopolitanism. Those sons who blushed for their fathers set themselves to abnegate their racial conscience: and they succeeded only too well. Having plucked out the soul that was their birthright, all that was left them was a mixture of the moral and intellectual values of other races: ...

— Jean Christophe: In Paris - The Market-Place, Antoinette, The House • Romain Rolland