Used especially of behavior.
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Examples for "renunciative"
Examples for "renunciative"
1I have not the grand self-abnegating spirit necessary for such a work.
2We all know overly devoted, self-abnegating men and women who are philanderers.
3Joseph is a pattern of self-abnegating submission, and an example of its rewards.
4He shook in a self-abnegating way, as one who shook for Tellson and Co.
5The old fellow's voice was strangely balanced between pathos and a peculiar self-abnegating humour.
1She had learnt also the lowly and self-denying faith in common chances.
2The Lord make us wiser, more self-denying and more loyal to duty.
3The early Franciscans were men of deep, religious fervour, self-denying and godly.
4He had spent twenty-one years an earnest, self-denying minister of Jesus Christ.
5We honor the memory of the early and self-denying workers among the Freedmen.