Used especially of behavior.
Willing to deprive yourself.
1 She had learnt also the lowly and self - denying faith in common chances.
2 The Lord make us wiser, more self - denying and more loyal to duty.
3 The early Franciscans were men of deep, religious fervour, self - denying and godly.
4 He had spent twenty-one years an earnest, self - denying minister of Jesus Christ.
5 We honor the memory of the early and self - denying workers among the Freedmen.
6 The blessedness of self - denying efforts for the salvation of souls cannot be estimated.
7 Hence comes the self - denying ordinance, in December, and construction of New Model Army.
8 The pupils were early trained to form habits of self - denying benevolence.
9 He nevertheless adopted a no less prudential and self - denying plan of his own.
10 It is not so much a self - denying as a self-forgetting virtue.
11 But you have taught me how pure and self - denying this love may be.
12 She had laid upon both of them a self - denying ordinance as to meeting.
13 Though Nataly's mention of the aristocracy of self - denying discipline struck a
14 We become mercenary or self - denying , very much as we are instructed.
15 She is by her very constitution compassionate, gentle, patient, and self - denying .
16 Why should he be more self - denying than the rest of them?
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