self-abnegation
noun
self-denial or self-sacrifice.
self-abnegating
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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
Most students reacted differently through self-humiliation and self-abnegating subjugation.
From Salon ● Sep. 8, 2018
Not for me, the lucky beneficiary of my mother’s quixotic and self-abnegating striving, but for my perpetually impoverished parents.
From The New Yorker ● Nov. 27, 2016
Joseph Tipps, having got leave of absence for an evening, was also there,—modest amiable, active and self-abnegating.
From The Iron Horse by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne
