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SELF-DENYING

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 I. (adjective) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Used especially of behaviorplay

Synonyms:

renunciant; renunciative; self-abnegating; self-denying

Classified under:

Adjectives

Similar:

nonindulgent; strict (characterized by strictness, severity, or restraint)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Willing to deprive yourselfplay

Synonyms:

self-denying; self-giving; self-sacrificing

Classified under:

Adjectives

Similar:

unselfish (disregarding your own advantages and welfare over those of others)

Credits

 Context examples: 

I endeavoured to convert what might have been between myself and Agnes, into a means of making me more self-denying, more resolved, more conscious of myself, and my defects and errors.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

I wanted to see how you would come out of the trial, Trot; and you came out nobly—persevering, self-reliant, self-denying!

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

In her stead, the perfect likeness of the picture, a child likeness no more, moves about the house; and Agnes—my sweet sister, as I call her in my thoughts, my counsellor and friend, the better angel of the lives of all who come within her calm, good, self-denying influence—is quite a woman.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

That Peggotty was the best, the truest, the most faithful, most devoted, and most self-denying friend and servant in the world; who had ever loved me dearly, who had ever loved my mother dearly; who had held my mother's dying head upon her arm, on whose face my mother had imprinted her last grateful kiss.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)




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