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
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
Most students reacted differently through self-humiliation and self-abnegating subjugation.
From Salon ● Sep. 8, 2018
There was a slight touch of consciousness in his voice in spite of its sadness, which struck the young girl as a weak and even ungentlemanly note in his otherwise self-abnegating and undemonstrative attitude.
From A Sappho of Green Springs by Bret Harte
