self-abnegation
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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
Where did this self-abnegation begin, and why does it persist?
From Slate ● Mar. 23, 2025
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
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
However, when the mother positively refused to accept of this act of self-abnegation, I can not say that he regretted it.
From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 1. No 1, June 1850 by Various
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