self-abnegation
Example Sentences
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Such a woman may not be entirely silent, but she meets the right's ideal of total female self-abnegation, a complete embrace of her role as a servant and vessel for the desires of others.
From Salon
The life that Alharthi describes is one of almost saintly self-abnegation.
From Washington Post
Season 3 is, winningly, rife with Roman's swaggering sexual self-abnegation.
From Salon
To make his self-abnegation flesh, Spivey is surrounded — and serially haunted — by six sensational actors who play Usher’s “Thoughts.”
From Washington Post
Perhaps that is an ordinary situation most mothers would recognize, but I was so immature and unformed that I experienced that acute fear of self-abnegation as if it were the entire meaning of motherhood itself.
From New York Times
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