Translation for "abnegated" to spanish
Abnegated
adjective
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adjective
Secondly, the Security Council has abnegated its responsibility for putting an end to crimes of aggression and for holding the perpetrators of such crimes to account.
Segundo, el Consejo de Seguridad ha renunciado a su responsabilidad de poner fin a los delitos de agresión y de someter a la justicia a los que los perpetran.
She has chosen to become, to try to become, “a woman who has renounced all tenderness, all claim to feminine virtues”—virtue in a woman means self-abnegation—“in order to dedicate herself solely to painting.”
Ha optado por convertirse, por intentar convertirse en «una mujer que ha renunciado a toda ternura, a cualquier concesión a las virtudes femeninas», la virtud en la mujer significa abnegación —«para poder dedicarse sólo a la pintura»—.
adjective
He who has denied himself so much for so many years, who has been so stolid in his abnegations, who has taught himself to rein in his temper and drift through the world with cool, stubborn detachment has slowly come back to life in the face of her emotional excesses, her combustibility, her mawkish tears when confronted by the image of an abandoned teddy bear, a broken bicycle, or a vase of wilted flowers.
Él, que tanto se ha negado a sí mismo durante tantos años, que tan intransigente ha sido en sus renuncias, que ha aprendido a dominar su temperamento y deambular por el mundo con un desapego terco y frío, ha vuelto poco a poco a la vida ante los excesos emotivos de Pilar, su apasionamiento, sus sensibleras lágrimas cuando se le muestra la imagen de un osito de peluche abandonado, una bicicleta rota o un jarrón de flores marchitas.
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