self-sacrifice
Example Sentences
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Self-sacrifice and a life of service to larger causes are, I think, things well worth honoring.
From Washington Post • Jul. 9, 2020
Self-sacrifice was exalted in all fascist and revolutionary movements, but in the Legion, martyrdom was virtually required, accompanied by theological heterodoxy.
From Slate • Feb. 21, 2017
Self-sacrifice is also human, as MacFarquhar points out.
From Slate • Oct. 4, 2015
Self-sacrifice, doing what needs to be done because it's the right thing to do.
From Slate • Apr. 7, 2013
Self-sacrifice should spring from direct desire, altruism be spontaneous—a need—becoming a second and better nature; not won by painful effort, but through the larger development of the principle of sympathy.
From Famous Women: George Sand by Thomas, Bertha
