self-devoted
- a word derived from self-devotion.
Example Sentences
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"It is scarcely possible," says Mr. Massingberd, "to read the history of St. Francis of Assisi, without believing that there was in him a sincere and self-devoted, however ill-directed, piety."
From Notes and Queries, Number 78, April 26, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc by Bell, George
The personality of Antinous, combined with the suggestion of his self-devoted death, made him triumphant in art as in the affections of the pious.
From Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Third series by Symonds, John Addington
They have fallen, those youths, self-devoted to death, with a courage so impetuous, casting their youth away as if it were a thing of no account, a careless trifle, life and all its promises!
From The Origins and Destiny of Imperial Britain Nineteenth Century Europe by Cramb, J. A. (John Adam)
The enterprise of a few self-devoted proselytes at length overcame this difficulty.
From History of the Reign of Philip the Second, King of Spain, Vols. 1 and 2 by Prescott, William Hickling
Had she loved her mother with a love less intense, less self-devoted, less utterly absorbing in its passion, at that moment she would have gone mad, or died.
From Olive A Novel by Bowers, G.
