单词 | self-denied |
释义 | self-deniedadj.ΘΚΠ society > morality > virtue > morally elevated quality > unselfishness > [adjective] > self-abnegating self-denying1630 self-renouncing1641 self-denied1642 self-annihilated1677 self-renounced1756 self-abnegating1840 self-abnegatory1846 self-renunciatory1850 1642 D. Rogers Naaman 323 As for studying cases of conscience, they..see it is tedious, requires a learning from heaven, also a very broken, selfe-denyed tender and mercifull heart. 1693 Apol. Clergy Scotl. 9 They could not be so self-denyed as to be willingly deprived of the honour. a1715 Bp. G. Burnet Hist. Own Time (1724) I. 193 He..was a mortified and self-denied man, that delighted in nothing so much as in the doing good. 1797 A. Pirie Duties & Qualifications Gospel Missionary 29 Trusting in his Grace for recruits of spiritual vigour, the self-denied Missionary shall be preserved without spot, and blameless. 1818 W. Scott Heart of Mid-Lothian viii, in Tales of my Landlord 2nd Ser. III. 212 The undaunted and self-denied manner in which he sacrificed himself. 1850 J. Brown Disc. & Sayings our Lord (1852) II. xvi. 206 Are we following him in self-denied service? 2. Designating something that a person has denied himself or herself. ΚΠ 1866 Examiner 14 July 435/3 Good wishes..will follow the excellent old judge into his well-earned and too long self-denied retirement. 1916 Atlantic Monthly July 44/2 Instinctive desires are self-denied, and sufferings self-inflicted. 1947 Library Q. 17 23/1 There are many pleasures that a person who has been educated..will forbid himself... Chief among these self-denied pleasures are bad literature and bad art. 2014 Star Tribune (Minneapolis) (Nexis) 28 Apr. 10 a Gay men attracted to the priesthood as cover, who then somehow become pedophiles under the stress of self-denied sex. DerivativesΘΚΠ society > morality > virtue > morally elevated quality > unselfishness > [adverb] > with self-abnegation self-denyingly1642 self-deniedlya1658 self-renouncingly1838 a1658 J. Durham Pract. Expos. X. Commandements (1675) v. 325 It were much more Christian and congruous for a man to whom God may have given more then he hath done to others, selfdenyedly to vail, and studiously to obscure himself. 1734 J. Willison Young Communicant's Catech. 47 They should look out for another Communion-occasion, and prepare for it more diligently and self-deniedly. 1877 Evangelical Repository & United Presbyterian Worker June 8 He gave so self-deniedly and exhaustively of his own private resources, that I am almost sure..he scarcely, if ever, saved anything for the future needs of himself and his family. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, January 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1642 |
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