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SELF-DENYING
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Used especially of behavior
Synonyms:
renunciant; renunciative; self-abnegating; self-denying
Classified under:
Similar:
nonindulgent; strict (characterized by strictness, severity, or restraint)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Willing to deprive yourself
Synonyms:
self-denying; self-giving; self-sacrificing
Classified under:
Similar:
unselfish (disregarding your own advantages and welfare over those of others)
Context examples:
I endeavoured to convert what might have been between myself and Agnes, into a means of making me more self-denying, more resolved, more conscious of myself, and my defects and errors.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
I wanted to see how you would come out of the trial, Trot; and you came out nobly—persevering, self-reliant, self-denying!
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
In her stead, the perfect likeness of the picture, a child likeness no more, moves about the house; and Agnes—my sweet sister, as I call her in my thoughts, my counsellor and friend, the better angel of the lives of all who come within her calm, good, self-denying influence—is quite a woman.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
That Peggotty was the best, the truest, the most faithful, most devoted, and most self-denying friend and servant in the world; who had ever loved me dearly, who had ever loved my mother dearly; who had held my mother's dying head upon her arm, on whose face my mother had imprinted her last grateful kiss.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
