self-denying
Example Sentences
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This brave self-denying mother lives today here in Tulsa and with her that tot—now a splendid young lady—whom she risked her life to save.
From Slate ● Oct. 23, 2019
Whoever ventures within the bookshops and beside the counters where they are piled will need to have either a full purse or a sternly self-denying temper.
From New York Times ● Nov. 30, 2018
But he’s not by nature the self-denying type: as soon as the movie wrapped, he spent three days on a couch eating mozzarella and bone marrow and drinking wine.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 11, 2018
Keleş, who has since left the movement, said that while Gülen presented himself as a humble, self-denying cleric, in private he was entirely different: vain, megalomaniacal, demanding total obedience.
From The New Yorker ● Oct. 10, 2016
It soon turns out however to be little but a prudent and self-denying superiority to particular passions and inclinations in the interest of a comprehensive ideal.
From Hegel's Philosophy of Mind by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
