Meaning of self-abnegation | Babel Free

Definitions

1. The denial or invalidation of one's own needs, interests, etc. for the sake of another's; the setting aside of self-interest.
   countable, uncountable
2. An act of self-denial.
   countable

Equivalents

Examples

“[Self commendation] should bee accompanied with Self-abnegation, or a renouncing of all Self-conceit, Self-sufficiency, Self seeking, or Self worthiness; to prick the bladder of pride in us.”

“You understand⟳, of course, that it is only by serving and self-abnegation that we advance in the higher world."”

“She must no longer allow⟳ herself to hope⟳ for anything for herself. The rest⟳ of her life must be spent in self-abnegation: she must seek⟳ for no sympathy, must ask⟳ for no grace in love⟳, no grace and harmony in living. Henceforward, as far as her own⟳ desires went, she was dead.”

“The problem was that the Ruler never let⟳ anyone know⟳ what was expected of him to retain⟳ his place⟳ of honor. Even humility and self-abnegation, however abject, were not enough to prevent⟳ one’s downfall.”

“[King Charles] lacks, too, that aura of self-abnegation, of having surrendered himself to duty.”

“Certain business titans have⟳ made Mar-A-Lago a scene of such flagrant self-abnegation, ring-kissing, and genuflection that it would embarrass a medieval Pope.”

“[…] self-abnegations often repeated imply on the part of the actor a tacit ascription of relative selfishness to others who profit by the self-abnegations.”

“There was something monstrous about his self-abnegations. Perhaps he denied himself the things for which he did not care. He wanted to seem nobler than any one else.”

“In one of his first self-abnegations he [Andy Warhol] induced her [his mother] to sign⟳ his works, and write⟳ his captions, in her own⟳ clumsy but clear handwriting.”

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