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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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
It is evident that Elizabeth Fry dared to be singular; very possibly only such self-renouncing singularity could have borne such remarkable fruits of philanthropy.
From Elizabeth Fry by Mrs. E. R. Pitman
It came with the memories that no passion could long quench; the long past came back to her, and with it the fountains of self-renouncing pity and affection, of faithfulness and resolve.
From The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot
She might have been taken for an image of passionate strength beaten and worn with conflict; and he for an image of the self-renouncing faith which has soothed that conflict into rest.
From Scenes of Clerical Life by George Eliot
Just such now was the mood of Pierre; to him the Evil One propounded the possibility of the mere moonshine of all his self-renouncing Enthusiasm.
From Pierre; or The Ambiguities by Herman Melville
