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Meanings of self-denial in inglês
Renunciation of your own interests in favor of the interests of others.
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Examples for "self-control"
Examples for "self-control"
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She wanted him: his power and his grim self-control, his beautiful voice.
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The Committee stress in the strongest terms the duty of moral self-control.
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Marco would have started but for his long training in exterior self-control.
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The fifth set was an epic duel of will power and self-control.
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And the girl on the bed had the advantage of absolute self-control.
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I praise his integrity and self-discipline, saying, I wanted a solid family.
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That self-discipline was one of the most wonderful things in the world.
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This was, in a way, admirable, as it required impressive personal self-discipline.
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It is wrong to spend two months in self-indulgence without any self-discipline.
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The only way it can be done is by self-study and self-discipline.
Usage of self-denial in inglês
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Instead he had chosen exhausting labor and stern self-denial in the wilds.
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Capital represents the self-denial, the providence, and the enterprise of the past.
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And then the toil and self-denial for the stocking and the tree
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The citizens went to the polls in a mood of exalted self-denial.
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The majority prefer the enjoyment of pleasure to the practice of self-denial.
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In this life of suffering and self-denial they persevered unto the end.
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There's a difference, albeit one that includes a strong dose of self-denial.
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Perhaps the chief wished to train him with Spartan ideas of self-denial.
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Clergy and laymen practiced various forms of self-denial without becoming actual monks.
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His self-denial and devotion to the interests of the nation were marvellous.
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The committee congratulated themselves on having had the self-denial to exclude ladies.
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The one real substance and true essence of all fasting is self-denial.
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That this self-denial was richly repaid me was a very natural consequence.
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But let me caution you against placing self-denial chiefly in outward things.
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His was the self-denial of the Christians, but without their anticipated compensation.
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He wrested some control over his addiction by heroic self-denial and discipline.
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Frequent collocations
Translations for self-denial
Self-denial through the time