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Definition of self-abnegation in English: self-abnegationnoun sɛlfˌabnɪˈɡeɪʃ(ə)n mass nounThe denial or abasement of oneself. 自我否定,自贬 she turned the letter into a grovelling form of self-abnegation 她把信写成了卑下的自贬形式。 Example sentencesExamples - He seemed to conjure up contradictory feelings of self-abnegation and self-righteousness, of the need for charity and the compulsion to talk about one's personal sense of sacrifice.
- 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 whole book is an exercise in self-love, disguised as an exercise in self-abnegation.
- 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.
- Submission to authority, self-abnegation and conformism had led the Japanese to disaster.
- Rather, Gandhi's environmentalism had its roots in a deep antipathy to urban civilization and a belief in self-sufficiency, in self-abnegation and denial rather than wasteful consumption.
- The balance between self-abnegation and violent self-assertion, between masochism and sadism, between empowerment and domination is highly precarious in this relationship.
- Basically, after years of self-abnegation, Britain now has an old fashioned tax-and-spend government.
- Obeying the guru required discipline and self-abnegation, an exercise that was always beneficial to the spiritual aspirant.
- By then, however, American simplicity entailed the mass consumption of mass-produced commodities, not the virtuous self-abnegation of the Revolutionary generation.
- The unhappy habit of self-abnegation seems to be unbreakable.
- Selflessness also lies at the core of what is essential in a general, for both moral and physical courage derive from self-abnegation.
- This form of self-abnegation and inability to assert oneself embarrasses the boys and leads them to react violently against those whom they perceive are treating them as second-class citizens.
- Some religious traditions indeed predicate apocalyptic hope on a lifetime of self-abnegation and the renunciation of all individual markers of significance and distinction.
Synonyms austerity, self-denial, abstinence, abstemiousness, non-indulgence, self-discipline, frugality, simplicity, rigour, strictness, severity Definition of self-abnegation in US English: self-abnegationnoun The denial or abasement of oneself. 自我否定,自贬 she turned the letter into a groveling form of self-abnegation 她把信写成了卑下的自贬形式。 Example sentencesExamples - Selflessness also lies at the core of what is essential in a general, for both moral and physical courage derive from self-abnegation.
- The whole book is an exercise in self-love, disguised as an exercise in self-abnegation.
- Thus, they describe a path to international cooperation that does not require assumptions of altruism or self-abnegation on the part of individual states.
- Submission to authority, self-abnegation and conformism had led the Japanese to disaster.
- This form of self-abnegation and inability to assert oneself embarrasses the boys and leads them to react violently against those whom they perceive are treating them as second-class citizens.
- Some religious traditions indeed predicate apocalyptic hope on a lifetime of self-abnegation and the renunciation of all individual markers of significance and distinction.
- Obeying the guru required discipline and self-abnegation, an exercise that was always beneficial to the spiritual aspirant.
- 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.
- The balance between self-abnegation and violent self-assertion, between masochism and sadism, between empowerment and domination is highly precarious in this relationship.
- He seemed to conjure up contradictory feelings of self-abnegation and self-righteousness, of the need for charity and the compulsion to talk about one's personal sense of sacrifice.
- The unhappy habit of self-abnegation seems to be unbreakable.
- Basically, after years of self-abnegation, Britain now has an old fashioned tax-and-spend government.
- Rather, Gandhi's environmentalism had its roots in a deep antipathy to urban civilization and a belief in self-sufficiency, in self-abnegation and denial rather than wasteful consumption.
- By then, however, American simplicity entailed the mass consumption of mass-produced commodities, not the virtuous self-abnegation of the Revolutionary generation.
Synonyms austerity, self-denial, abstinence, abstemiousness, non-indulgence, self-discipline, frugality, simplicity, rigour, strictness, severity |