Renunciation of your own interests in favor of the interests of others.
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He grew in the grace of patience, and in spirituality and self-abnegation.
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By the completeness of self-abnegation may the footsteps of love be traced.
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Such self-abnegation caused him to become the full brunt of the beatings.
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Yet the laugh was politeness carried to the utmost point of self-abnegation.
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The Chinese, who knew everything beforehand, are perfect in self-abnegation of manner.
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Preachers dwell far too much on the side of self-sacrifice and self-abnegation.
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She made up for this wifely self-abnegation by frequenting the hen houses.
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Nobody, in fact, ever gave her credit for a grain of self-abnegation.
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Happiness through marriage is never attained except by never-ending self-abnegation and effort.
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Such a spirit of self-abnegation, the Reader must admit, is true love.
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His labors as a pastor were devout, humane, and full of self-abnegation.
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My child, there is a divine self-abnegation to which very few attain.
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The patriotism was counterfeit; the self-abnegation and the generosity were counterfeit.
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The proud self-abnegation of the ancient Roman was lacking in the medieval Genoese.
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Love is more than self-denial; it is self-surrender and utter self-abnegation.
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It was one failure in a life of self-abnegation and suppression.