单词 | self-renunciatory |
释义 | self-renunciatoryadj. 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). < adj.1850 |
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