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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 Brown, John Crombie

The self-devotedness of which Rome boasts so much is a self-devotion she has always thus made the most of for herself. 

From Literary and General Lectures and Essays by Kingsley, Charles

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 Brown, John Crombie

The tremulous sensitiveness of her former life has now passed beyond all outward manifestation, lost in absorbing self-devotedness and absorbing sorrow; and every thought, feeling, and word is characterised by an ineffable depth of calm.

From The Ethics of George Eliot's Works by Brown, John Crombie

Yes, in very truth she had loved, loved with all the purity, the self-devotedness of woman; and Mr. Hamilton felt that which at the moment he could not speak.

From The Mother's Recompense, Volume 2 A Sequel to Home Influence by Aguilar, Grace