self-abnegation
noun
self-denial or self-sacrifice.
self-abnegating
-
a word derived from
self-abnegation.
Example Sentences
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But as always in Matisse, you can feel something brewing — a tension, a sense of feeling so heightened that you intuit it will take all of Matisse’s disinterested and self-abnegating intelligence to master.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 21, 2021
I wish the play would have more fully entertained alternative modes of altruism, giving Clare a glimpse of a less lonely and self-abnegating future.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 3, 2021
As deeply unwoke as it is, no one was more self-abnegating than the actual Gwen Verdon, who became the keeper of Fosse’s reputation and who willingly told people he “created” her.
From Slate ● Dec. 13, 2019
In this case, the drifter is Josh, a persnickety, self-abnegating student living in Melbourne.
From The New Yorker ● Nov. 19, 2018
She was one of that community of self-abnegating women, who, bound by holy vows, devote their lives to the care of the suffering, and are the most skilful, tender, and zealous nurses that France affords.
From Fairy Fingers A Novel by Anna Cora Ogden Mowatt Ritchie
