I have not the grand self-abnegating spirit necessary for such a work.

We all know overly devoted, self-abnegating men and women who are philanderers.

Joseph is a pattern of self-abnegating submission, and an example of its rewards.

He shook in a self-abnegating way, as one who shook for Tellson and Co.

The old fellow's voice was strangely balanced between pathos and a peculiar self-abnegating humour.

She had learnt also the lowly and self-denying faith in common chances.

The Lord make us wiser, more self-denying and more loyal to duty.

The early Franciscans were men of deep, religious fervour, self-denying and godly.

He had spent twenty-one years an earnest, self-denying minister of Jesus Christ.

We honor the memory of the early and self-denying workers among the Freedmen.