Word Meanings - SELF-ABNEGATION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Self-denial; self-renunciation; self-sacrifice.

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• SACRIFICE
  1. The offering of anything to God, or to a god; consecratory rite. Great pomp, and sacrifice, and praises loud, To Dagon. Milton. 2. Anything consecrated and offered to God, or to a divinity; an immolated victin, or an offering of any kind, laid
• RENUNCIATION
  Formal declination to take out letters of administration, or to assume an office, privilege, or right. Syn. -- Renouncement; disownment; disavowal; disavowment; disclaimer; rejection; abjuration; recantation; denial; abandonment; relinquishment.
• DENIAL
  1. The act of gainsaying, refusing, or disowning; negation; -- the contrary of affirmation. You ought to converse with so much sincerity that your bare affirmation or denial may be sufficient. Bp. Stillingfleet. 2. A refusal to admit the truth
• SACRIFICER
  One who sacrifices.
• SELF-RENUNCIATION
  The act of renouncing, or setting aside, one's own wishes, claims, etc.; self-sacrifice.
• ABRENUNCIATION
  Absolute renunciation or repudiation. An abrenunciation of that truth which he so long had professed, and still believed. Fuller.
• PRENUNCIATION
  The act of announcing or proclaiming beforehand.
• SELF-DENIAL
  The denial of one's self; forbearing to gratify one's own desires; self-sacrifice.
• SELF-SACRIFICE
  The act of sacrificing one's self, or one's interest, for others; self-devotion.