self-devotion
noun
intense devotion of oneself to an activity or to a field or profession, as art or science.
self-devotedness
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a word derived from
self-devotion.
Example Sentences
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Long before this similar kitchens had been privately set on foot, and men and women had devoted themselves to the work with untiring energy and the most absolute self-devotedness.
From The Story of Ireland by Emily Lawless
Not even her father’s dying charge is needed to confirm her purpose, to fix her life in a self-devotedness already fixed beyond all relaxing and all change.
From The Ethics of George Eliot's Works by John Crombie Brown
The self-devotedness, sagacity, and indefatigable exertions of the excellent young man, Mr. Lucas, were above all encomiums, and, at the hands of the British Government, he deserved some especial mark of favour.
From Travels in Morocco, Volume 2. by James Richardson
Mothers who have brought up eight children of their own can appreciate the self-devotedness of this mother in receiving a ninth child by adoption in order to increase the well-being of her own little daughter.
From Harriet Martineau by Florence Fenwick Miller
Equally, when she first comes before us, and in all the after-glory of her serene unconscious self-devotedness, she is living to others, not to herself.
From The Ethics of George Eliot's Works by John Crombie Brown
