self-abnegation

Breaking the link between fossil fuel and our energy-fueled lifestyle requires a certain amount of self-abnegation.

On the contrary, Barkley debunks his own presence in the spot, in a brilliant stroke of marketing self-abnegation.

His devotion to you is the most beautiful expression of self-abnegation that I have ever met.

John Stuart Mill says that utter self-abnegation has been preached to women as a peculiarly feminine virtue.

But, save in this entire self-abnegation and social exclusion, Mr. McDonogh had none of the habits of the miser.

It is difficult to decide what is meant by sacrifice and self-abnegation in this world of human subterfuge and self-deception.

She needed someone to listen, not to talk, and Mary had been trained by long years of self-abnegation to fill that post.