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Meanings of self-renunciation in English
Renunciation of your own interests in favor of the interests of others.
Usage of self-renunciation in English
1
We have self-renunciation as the condition of entering the kingdom.
2
The Schmidts were doing hard service requiring the utmost self-renunciation.
3
What is that to the glorious self-renunciation of a martyr in pearls and diamonds?
4
Or perhaps it rather means, If self-renunciation is the condition, who can fulfil it?
5
Your life will be one of self-renunciation; but, God knows there are many such!
6
He ascribed to me a power of self-renunciation which won his ardent approval and admiration.
7
Francis had given himself up too completely not to claim from others an absolute self-renunciation.
8
Ceaseless toil, self-renunciation, and love, have cleared its pathway.
9
Of this great company, what can we say save that they won renown through self-renunciation!
10
They desired to lose themselves in ecstatic self-renunciation.
11
Such a self-renunciation is not common in England.
12
My brother's chief characteristic was neither egotism nor self-renunciation, but a strict mean between the two.
13
Talk away about self-renunciation, for that is beautiful; but at the same time practice a little honesty.
14
But in his self-renunciation he gave her advice that sprang out of his own sorrow and pessimism.
15
It was a final act of self-renunciation.
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Apart from that Wisdom which is inseparable from self-renunciation, there can be no real and abiding peace.