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Meanings of self-denying in English

Used especially of behavior.

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Willing to deprive yourself.

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I have not the grand self-abnegating spirit necessary for such a work.
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We all know overly devoted, self-abnegating men and women who are philanderers.
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Joseph is a pattern of self-abnegating submission, and an example of its rewards.
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He shook in a self-abnegating way, as one who shook for Tellson and Co.
A Tale of Two Cities
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The old fellow's voice was strangely balanced between pathos and a peculiar self-abnegating humour.
The Slave of the Lamp
Usage of self-denying in English
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She had learnt also the lowly and self-denying faith in common chances.
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The Lord make us wiser, more self-denying and more loyal to duty.
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The early Franciscans were men of deep, religious fervour, self-denying and godly.
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He had spent twenty-one years an earnest, self-denying minister of Jesus Christ.
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We honor the memory of the early and self-denying workers among the Freedmen.
The American Missionary — Volume 42, No. 07, July, 1888
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The blessedness of self-denying efforts for the salvation of souls cannot be estimated.
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Hence comes the self-denying ordinance, in December, and construction of New Model Army.
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The pupils were early trained to form habits of self-denying benevolence.
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He nevertheless adopted a no less prudential and self-denying plan of his own.
Moral Science; a Compendium of Ethics
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It is not so much a self-denying as a self-forgetting virtue.
Our Lady Saint Mary
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But you have taught me how pure and self-denying this love may be.
Anna St. Ives
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She had laid upon both of them a self-denying ordinance as to meeting.
The Price of Love
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Though Nataly's mention of the aristocracy of self-denying discipline struck a
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We become mercenary or self-denying, very much as we are instructed.
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She is by her very constitution compassionate, gentle, patient, and self-denying.
Character
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Why should he be more self-denying than the rest of them?
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