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How to use self-abnegation in a sentence

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Basically, after years of self-abnegation, Britain now has an old fashioned tax-and-spend government.
Submission to authority, self-abnegation and conformism had led the Japanese to disaster.
Obeying the guru required discipline and self-abnegation, an exercise that was always beneficial to the spiritual aspirant.
The whole book is an exercise in self-love, disguised as an exercise in self-abnegation.
Selflessness also lies at the core of what is essential in a general, for both moral and physical courage derive from self-abnegation.
Mr. Bichir gives Carlos a certain humility, but it has nothing to do with self-abnegation.
Everything superfluous must be striped off to reach a state of self-abnegation, where body and being become totally transparent.
This homage also goes to the team that worked under him, at his pace with self-abnegation and confidence.
Meanwhile, UNCTAD has chosen an approach of self-abnegation with respect to impact.
Democracy proved that it had not only the greater numbers, but also the courage, the self-abnegation and the endurance.
The grace of devotion is obtained by the practice of humility and self-abnegation.
Breaking the link between fossil fuel and our energy-fueled lifestyle requires a certain amount of self-abnegation.
Some religious traditions indeed predicate apocalyptic hope on a lifetime of self-abnegation and the renunciation of all individual markers of significance and distinction.
The religious ethos is about redemption, self-abnegation and surrender to God.
Heroic self-abnegation was, as it has been for two millennia, one of the few.
I admire her fierceness, her conviction, her self-abnegation and, yes, her contempt.
The priests I knew practiced self-abnegation but had perfected a quiet dance of ego.
Thus, they describe a path to international cooperation that does not require assumptions of altruism or self-abnegation on the part of individual states.
The shoes are the telling detail, proof that the song's protagonist has slipped from stability into a downward spiral of apathy and self-abnegation.
By then, however, American simplicity entailed the mass consumption of mass-produced commodities, not the virtuous self-abnegation of the Revolutionary generation.
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Examples from Classical Literature
His devotion to you is the most beautiful expression of self-abnegation that I have ever met.
Her modesty and self-abnegation were not, so far as any one knew, the result of principle.
I am constrained to say that this self-abnegation was more fastidious than moral.
It was the furthest limit of self-abnegation, at least so he interpreted it.
Ay, there was One, who took note of the self-abnegation which had been learned from Him.
What is his title to the love or gratitude or self-abnegation of his child?
Such an instance of self-abnegation has rarely been heard of in history.
Both of the women now docilely obeyed and aided him, in his heroic self-abnegation.
Would this miserable and maddened man understand her self-abnegation?
He was demanding too much of his exhausted capacity for self-abnegation.
It was easy to promise self-abnegation when self was wrapped up in another, and heart and soul were purified by a sweet example.
These include not only radical self-abnegation, self-loathing, and self-denigration but also, on the other extreme, self-exaltation, unchecked pride, and radical autonomy.
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