self-denial

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What of altruism, humility, reserve, healthy self denial?

From New York Times • Dec. 12, 2017

Now she had her reward for all her loving self denial in sending him away and feigning herself dead.

From The House of Walderne A Tale of the Cloister and the Forest in the Days of the Barons' Wars by Crake, A. D. (Augustine David)

Now therefore ministers must not think that what they say of the doctrine of self denial among professors, will be much, if at all regarded.

From Works of John Bunyan — Volume 02 by Bunyan, John

It is in speculation, not in practice, they are made to discover, that virtue is a task of severity and self denial.

From An Essay on the History of Civil Society, Eighth Edition by Ferguson, Adam

It's weel enuff for fowk to praich    An praise up self denial; But them 'at's forradest to praich,    Dooant put it oft to trial.

From Yorkshire Lyrics Poems written in the Dialect as Spoken in the West Riding of Yorkshire. To which are added a Selection of Fugitive Verses not in the Dialect by Hartley, John