self-devotedness
- a word derived from self-devotion.
Example Sentences
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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 Richardson, James
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 delegation of these pious evangelists was encouraged by flattering suggestions, and acceded to with the most raised expectations; and its objects were pursued by them with untiring zeal and unsparing self-devotedness, through continual hindrances.
From Biographical Memorials of James Oglethorpe by Harris, Thaddeus Mason
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
