self-abnegation

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   The denial or invalidation of one's own needs, interests, etc. for the sake of another's

   The denial or invalidation of one's own needs, interests, etc. for the sake of another's; the setting aside of self-interest.

   • [Self commendation] should bee accompanied with Self-abnegation, or a renouncing of all Self-conceit, Self-sufficiency, Self seeking, or Self worthiness; to prick the bladder of pride in us.
   • You understand, of course, that it is only by serving and self-abnegation that we advance in the higher world."
2. 2

   An act of self-denial.

   • […] self-abnegations often repeated imply on the part of the actor a tacit ascription of relative selfishness to others who profit by the self-abnegations.
   • There was something monstrous about his self-abnegations. Perhaps he denied himself the things for which he did not care. He wanted to seem nobler than any one else.
   • In one of his first self-abnegations he [Andy Warhol] induced her [his mother] to sign his works, and write his captions, in her own clumsy but clear handwriting.

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