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单词 self-renunciatory
释义

self-renunciatoryadj.

Brit. /ˌsɛlfrᵻˈnʌnsɪət(ə)ri/, U.S. /ˌsɛlfrəˈnənsiəˌtɔri/
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: self- prefix, renunciatory adj.
Etymology: < self- prefix + renunciatory adj., after self-renunciation n. Compare earlier self-renounced adj., self-renouncing adj.
Characterized by or involving self-renunciation; self-renouncing.
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
1850 Morning Chron. 16 Dec. 3/4 A cession of guaranteed and legal rights, almost too self-renunciatory to be justifiable upon the principles of mutual defence which should govern society.
1901 W. Macintosh Rabbi Jesus 232 Jesus..asks for a love as self-renunciatory as His own.
1986 J. Frank Dostoevsky (1988) III. xix. 287 Nothing more self-renunciatory could possibly be imagined; but this display of the purest virtue is masked as the most arrant and egregious selfishness.
2000 D. Chakrabarty Provincializing Europe v. 145 To the mother fell the duty of ensuring that the girl..observed all the self-renunciatory rites of widowhood.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, January 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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