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
Most students reacted differently through self-humiliation and self-abnegating subjugation.
From Salon ● Sep. 8, 2018
Folksy and eccentric, prone to talking to himself, this self-abnegating old-timer is the eternal sidekick, the hero's reliable right hand and nothing more.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 14, 2017
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
He would be running from the evidences of a moneyless, self-abnegating youth, from the plain surfaces of efficiency and womanliness, not hedged about and enfolded, but pushed to the extremity of its use.
From The Lovely Lady by Gordon Grant
