self-forgetting

American  

[self-fer-get-ing, self-] / ˈsɛlf fərˈgɛt ɪŋ, ˌsɛlf- /

adjective

1. self-forgetful.

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Other Word Forms

• self-forgettingly
  adverb

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Etymology

Origin of self-forgetting

First recorded in 1840–50

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Example Sentences

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self-forgetting

For it is by self-forgetting that one finds.

From MSNBC ● Oct. 15, 2014

He did not get it fully learned until after Jesus had risen again, and the Holy Spirit had come,—that the measure of rank in spiritual life is the measure of self-forgetting service.

From Personal Friendships of Jesus by J. R. (James Russell) Miller

No fierce and irascible Achilles disturbs the sympathy of the reader with the conquerors; no self-forgetting, but country-devoted Hector enlists our sympathies on the side of the vanquished.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 354, April 1845 by Various

Let this be a day of self-forgetting ministry for Christ and others.

From Days of Heaven Upon Earth by A. B. (Albert B.) Simpson

The reformers were a self-forgetting, passionate, often a frenzied party, and as a rule, firebrands do not follow icebergs.

From Body, Parentage and Character in History Notes on the Tudor Period by Furneaux Jordan

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