Renunciation of your own interests in favor of the interests of others.
The act of denying yourself; controlling your impulses.
1 Instead he had chosen exhausting labor and stern self - denial in the wilds.
2 Capital represents the self - denial , the providence, and the enterprise of the past.
3 And then the toil and self - denial for the stocking and the tree
4 The citizens went to the polls in a mood of exalted self - denial .
5 The majority prefer the enjoyment of pleasure to the practice of self - denial .
6 In this life of suffering and self - denial they persevered unto the end.
7 There's a difference, albeit one that includes a strong dose of self - denial .
8 Perhaps the chief wished to train him with Spartan ideas of self - denial .
9 Clergy and laymen practiced various forms of self - denial without becoming actual monks.
10 His self - denial and devotion to the interests of the nation were marvellous.
11 The committee congratulated themselves on having had the self - denial to exclude ladies.
12 The one real substance and true essence of all fasting is self - denial .
13 That this self - denial was richly repaid me was a very natural consequence.
14 But let me caution you against placing self - denial chiefly in outward things.
15 His was the self - denial of the Christians, but without their anticipated compensation.
16 He wrested some control over his addiction by heroic self - denial and discipline.
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