renounce
verb (used with object)
to give up or put aside voluntarily.
self-renouncing
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a word derived from
renounce.
Example Sentences
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“In service which Thy love appoints There are no bonds for me; My secret heart has learned the truth Which makes Thy children free: A life of self-renouncing love Is a life of liberty.”
From Clare Avery A Story of the Spanish Armada by Emily Sarah Holt
But when the self-abhorring thrill Is past, as pass it must, When tasks of life thy spirit fill Risen from thy tears and dust, Then be the self-renouncing will The seal of thy calm trust.
From Heartsease, Or, the Brother's Wife by Charlotte Mary Yonge
Was there no room for a woman of the Salvation Army who is out of some hideous slum for a moment's breathing, before returning to it with a great self-renouncing life of love and healing?
From Men in the Making by Ambrose Shepherd
Virtue is amor dei ac rationis, self-renouncing, active, obedient love to God and to the reason as the image and law of God in us.
From History of Modern Philosophy From Nicolas of Cusa to the Present Time by Richard Falckenberg
The content of the Christian idea of love—love, self-renouncing, self-fulfilling—is infinite, inexhaustible, like that of beauty, or of truth.
From The Case of Richard Meynell by Mrs. Humphry Ward
