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Meanings of abnegation in English
Renunciation of your own interests in favor of the interests of others.
Usage of abnegation in English
1
He grew in the grace of patience, and in spirituality and self-abnegation.
2
By the completeness of self-abnegation may the footsteps of love be traced.
3
Such self-abnegation caused him to become the full brunt of the beatings.
4
Yet the laugh was politeness carried to the utmost point of self-abnegation.
5
The martyr's abnegation of self is not yet dead in the world.
6
The Chinese, who knew everything beforehand, are perfect in self-abnegation of manner.
7
And that abnegation of rhetoric has revealed the nudity of my commonplaces.
8
Preachers dwell far too much on the side of self-sacrifice and self-abnegation.
9
All have the same words of sacrifice and abnegation on their lips.
10
She made up for this wifely self-abnegation by frequenting the hen houses.
11
Nobody, in fact, ever gave her credit for a grain of self-abnegation.
12
Julian sank forward upon the table with a gesture of utter abnegation.
13
Happiness through marriage is never attained except by never-ending self-abnegation and effort.
14
His hopes of sparing Greece greater calamities by his abnegation were vain.
15
Such a spirit of self-abnegation, the Reader must admit, is true love.
16
His labors as a pastor were devout, humane, and full of self-abnegation.
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United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
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