Used especially of behavior.
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Examples for "renunciative "
Examples for "renunciative "
1 I have not the grand self - abnegating spirit necessary for such a work.
2 We all know overly devoted, self - abnegating men and women who are philanderers.
3 Joseph is a pattern of self - abnegating submission, and an example of its rewards.
4 He shook in a self - abnegating way, as one who shook for Tellson and Co.
5 The old fellow's voice was strangely balanced between pathos and a peculiar self - abnegating humour.
1 She had learnt also the lowly and self - denying faith in common chances.
2 The Lord make us wiser, more self - denying and more loyal to duty.
3 The early Franciscans were men of deep, religious fervour, self - denying and godly.
4 He had spent twenty-one years an earnest, self - denying minister of Jesus Christ.
5 We honor the memory of the early and self - denying workers among the Freedmen.
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