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