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self-abnegation

[self-ab-ni-gey-shuhn] / ˈsɛlfˌæb nɪˈgeɪ ʃən /






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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

Here, Dominik thoroughly undoes that project in a film that not only re-objectifies Monroe but revels in her victimization and self-abnegation.

From Washington Post • Sep. 28, 2022

Perhaps that is an ordinary situation most mothers would recognize, but I was so immature and unformed that I experienced that acute fear of self-abnegation as if it were the entire meaning of motherhood itself.

From New York Times • Dec. 2, 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

St. Bernard, Foulques de Neuilly, Dur�n de Huesca, St. Dominic, St. Francis, had successively tried the rarest eloquence to convince, and the example of the sublimest self-abnegation to convert.

From A History of The Inquisition of The Middle Ages; volume I by Lea, Henry Charles