self-sacrifice
noun
sacrifice of one's interests, desires, etc., as for duty or the good of another.
self-sacrificingly
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a word derived from
self-sacrifice.
Example Sentences
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He draws on it now self-sacrificingly, though it kills him, but it is still there in him to be drawn on.
From Time ● Sep. 16, 2013
His wife had self-sacrificingly told that he might smoke in the house if he took care to sit by an open window.
From Anne of Avonlea by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery
Considering the fact that he did not wish to go, he was self-sacrificingly energetic.
From Running Sands by Reginald Wright Kauffman
She it is who self-sacrificingly starves herself to retain her slenderness, who massages and exercises and "cold-creams" herself hours a day before the shrine of Eternal Youth.
From How to Analyze People on Sight Through the Science of Human Analysis: The Five Human Types by Elsie Lincoln Benedict
And this victory will be all the greater the more zealously and self-sacrificingly each pursues the marked-out path.
From Woman under socialism by Daniel De Leon
