self-abnegation
Example Sentences
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On the contrary, sometimes it unfolds out of the public eye; self-abnegation can be a reliable marker of character.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 19, 2026
To make his self-abnegation flesh, Spivey is surrounded — and serially haunted — by six sensational actors who play Usher’s “Thoughts.”
From Washington Post • Dec. 6, 2021
The close third-person narration of the novel gives readers intimate access to Marianne’s pain and self-abnegation, but some of this gets lost in adaptation.
From Slate • Apr. 24, 2020
But her self-abnegation, far from enabling her work, frustrates the fulfillment of her artistic potential, turning her books into lifeless “intellectual exercises.”
From The New Yorker • Nov. 13, 2019
The supreme self-abnegation of that speech was too great to be understood all at once.
From Masterman and Son by Dawson, W. J. (William James)
