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self-abneˈgation
[self- 1 a.]
Self-renunciation.
1657Baker's Sancta Sophia ii. ii. iii. §6 (1908) 249 The smallest act of love and service to God, performed with a perfect self-abnegation. Dove Logic Chr. Faith iv. ii. §5. 226 In the Christian missionary..we have some of the noblest specimens of..self-abnegation. 1873Baroness Bunsen in Hare Life (1879) I. ii. 57 Her true humility and self-abnegation.
So self-ˈabnegating ppl. a., self-ˈabnegator (rare), self-ˈabnegatory a.
1864Pusey Daniel i. 22 Amid this *self-abnegating silence, what is the self-laudation? 1874H. R. Reynolds John Bapt. iv. §5. 257 The recklessness of self-abnegating love.
1907G. B. Shaw John Bull's Other Island p. xix, The Catholic is theoretically a Collectivist, a *self-abnegator, a Tory.
1897M. Kingsley W. Africa 680 A *self-abnegatory religion. |