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self-ˈsacrifice
[self- 1 a.]
Sacrifice of oneself; the giving up of one's own interests, happiness, and desires, for the sake of duty or the welfare of others.
1805Wordsw. Poems Sentim., Ode to Duty 54 Give unto me, made lowly wise, The spirit of self-sacrifice. 1843Kingsley Lett. (1878) I. 101 What a strange mystery is that of mutual self-sacrifice! to exist for one moment for another. 1885J. Martineau Types Eth. Th. I. i. i. §7. 226 Absolute self-sacrifice of the passions and imagination.
So self-ˈsacrificed pa. pple.; self-ˈsacrificer, a self-sacrificing person; self-sacriˈficial a. = next; self-ˈsacrificing ppl. a., making a sacrifice of one's life, etc. (whence -ˈsacrificingly adv., -ˈsacrificingness).
a1711Ken Preparatives Poet. Wks. IV. 83 *Self-sacrific'd, his Father's Will, And our Redemption to fulfil. 1900Inscr. in Postmen's Park, Aldersgate St., London, Mary Rogers, stewardess of the Stella, March 30, 1899, self-sacrificed by giving up her life-belt, and voluntarily going down in the sinking ship.
1668H. More Div. Dial. iii. xxv. I. 467 Martyrs and *Self-sacrificers to but so faint a Shadow..of the first uncreated Perfection. 1903Sat. Rev. 4 Apr. 421/2 It is usual for the self-sacrificer to be a consistently melodramatic person.
1855Bailey Mystic, etc. 98 The painful pelican *Self-sacrificial. 1893H. R. Reynolds in Life (1898) 473 Your self-sacrificial love to a great duty.
1817Moore Lalla Rookh, Parad. & Peri (ed. 2) 149 That precious sigh Of pure, *self-sacrificing love. 1897Gladstone E. Crisis 14 In the midst of a high and self-sacrificing enthusiasm, the Greek Government and people have shown good sense.
1882Advance (Chicago) 5 Oct., *Self-sacrificingly non-denominational in all directions.
1871Smiles Charac. ix. (1876) 239 In *self-sacrificingness,..in the ordinary intercourse of life, mainly consists the difference between being well and ill bred. |