abnegation
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The mistress set tasks, often no trifles, which the loyal subject must perform—hard feats of arms, long and perilous journeys, abnegations of pride or comfort.
From Studies in Medi?val Life and Literature by McLaughlin, Edward Tompkins
He had no faith in human abnegations for reconciliation with God.
From Luther and the Reformation: The Life-Springs of Our Liberties by Seiss, Joseph A.
The necessary give and take, the p. 113sacrifice of self-interests, the little abnegations, the moral adjustment following the appreciation of other points of view; all these things are good for men and women.
From The Vagabond in Literature by Rickett, Arthur
He advanced his bony hand, gnarled and mean with useless abstemiousness and miserable abnegations, and revolved the button in the concave.
From The Flaw in the Sapphire by Snyder, Charles M.
It sounded to Cap'n Oliver strangely like a voice out of his past, unquelled by fears and abnegations.
From Country Neighbors by Brown, Alice
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