self-abnegation

Example Sentences

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It is generously admitted that the frivolous tendencies which are innate in us have too much of the upper hand to sanction any sentiment which pre-supposes a self abnegation or exalted disinterestedness on our part.

From The Doctor's Daughter by Vera, [pseud.]

So the great lesson taught to the Apostles—and in the end it was taught more completely than ever men were taught it before—was self abnegation.

From Pastor Pastorum by Latham, Rev. Henry

There was nothing in his nature which would have recoiled from any self abnegation or submission.

From Lectures and Essays by Smith, Goldwin

Others try, by voluntary penance, self abnegation, and pain, to accumulate such a degree of merit, or to bring the soul into such a state of preparedness, as will compel the truth to reveal itself.

From The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life by Alger, William Rounseville

And of all the great questions, dividing the framers of that Constitution, perhaps none of them required a higher degree of self abnegation and patriotism than those touching human Slavery.

From The Great Conspiracy, Volume 1 by Logan, John Alexander