self-denial

From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishself-denialˌself-deˈnial noun [uncountable] NOT HAVEwhen you do not do or have the things you enjoy, for moral or religious reasons —self-denying adjectiveExamples from the Corpusself-denial• She had always shown patience and self-denial when it came to the matter of other people's inventions.• Second, to remove the standard dessert from the menu would penalise all those people who derive pleasure from conspicuous self-denial.• By these standards, the monks' self-denial seems tame.• For the exceptional practitioner of self-denial a special prize is in store.• There is the self-denial of the musician who devotes all her time and energy to mastering her musical instrument.• But in our society the self-denial of which we speak has a moral dimension which is not strongly recognised in all civilisations.

单词	self-denial
释义	self-denial From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishself-denialˌself-deˈnial noun [uncountable] NOT HAVEwhen you do not do or have the things you enjoy, for moral or religious reasons —self-denying adjectiveExamples from the Corpusself-denial• She had always shown patience and self-denial when it came to the matter of other people's inventions.• Second, to remove the standard dessert from the menu would penalise all those people who derive pleasure from conspicuous self-denial.• By these standards, the monks' self-denial seems tame.• For the exceptional practitioner of self-denial a special prize is in store.• There is the self-denial of the musician who devotes all her time and energy to mastering her musical instrument.• But in our society the self-denial of which we speak has a moral dimension which is not strongly recognised in all civilisations.
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