self-denial
noun
the sacrifice of one's own desires; unselfishness.
self-denying
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a word derived from
self-denial.
Example Sentences
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The narrator of “The Dakota Winters,” the 23-year-old middle child, Anton Winter, is so decent and self-denying that we know from the beginning he won’t be the hero of his own life.
From New York Times ● Feb. 1, 2019
But he’s not by nature the self-denying type: as soon as the movie wrapped, he spent three days on a couch eating mozzarella and bone marrow and drinking wine.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 11, 2018
Keleş, who has since left the movement, said that while Gülen presented himself as a humble, self-denying cleric, in private he was entirely different: vain, megalomaniacal, demanding total obedience.
From The New Yorker ● Oct. 10, 2016
But Judge Lindsey marveled at the “strenuous, strict, and self-denying conventions of the strange Flapper-Flipper world she lived in.”
From Time ● May 18, 2016
Let us believe that a noble, self-denying life increases the moral wealth of man, and gives assurance that the future will be grander than the past.
From The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 12 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Miscellany by Robert Green Ingersoll
