Such self-abnegation is not characteristic of many men.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Portland Peerage Romance] Reference

"Natural Selection;" also self-abnegation and asceticism.    From Wordnik.com.  [On the Genesis of Species] Reference

With "Agnes" she may plunge into more heroic self-abnegation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 23, February, 1873] Reference

Indeed no sacrifice, no self-abnegation, was too great for her.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Menorah Journal, Volume 1, 1915] Reference

Instead of conquering by selfishness he conquered by self-abnegation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Joy in Service; Forgetting, and Pressing Onward; Until the Day Dawn] Reference

His labors as a pastor were devout, humane, and full of self-abnegation.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Continental Monthly, Vol III, Issue VI, June, 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy] Reference

Such self-abnegation caused him to become the full brunt of the beatings.    From Wordnik.com.  [Corpus of a Siam Mosquito] Reference

By the completeness of self-abnegation may the footsteps of love be traced.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 75, January, 1864] Reference

I did him the simple justice to believe that his self-abnegation was sincere.    From Wordnik.com.  [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 101, November 28, 1891] Reference

It was not possible for self-abnegation to go farther than it did in her case.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mary Slessor of Calabar: Pioneer Missionary] Reference

M. Godin, on the contrary, seemed retiring almost to the point of self-abnegation.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Darrow Enigma] Reference

I can recall no instance of such self-abnegation in my husband's self-denying career.    From Wordnik.com.  [History of the Negro Race in America from 1619 to 1880. Vol. 2 (of 2) Negroes as Slaves, as Soldiers, and as Citizens] Reference

Wrong-doing is the only possible self-abnegation, of which the whole range of thought admits.    From Wordnik.com.  [Autographs for Freedom, Volume 2 (of 2) (1854)] Reference

The one ideal, the Greek, breathes an air of self-assertion; the other one of self-abnegation.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Handbook of Ethical Theory] Reference

Happiness through marriage is never attained except by never-ending self-abnegation and effort.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Eugenic Marriage, Vol. 3 (of 4) A Personal Guide to the New Science of Better Living and Better Babies] Reference

I cut it all off three weeks after my mother died, an act not of fashion but of self-abnegation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Say Farewell To Pin Curls] Reference

Care of the aged and infirm opposed by "Natural Selection;" also self-abnegation and asceticism.    From Wordnik.com.  [On the Genesis of Species] Reference

"Are you not afraid, in her great self-abnegation, that her own health will give way?" inquired Lady Esmondet.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Heart-Song of To-day] Reference

If by nature she had been passionate, rebellious, selfish, I could better understand her actual self-abnegation.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 108, October, 1866] Reference

But, save in this entire self-abnegation and social exclusion, Mr. McDonogh had none of the habits of the miser.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2, No. 2, August, 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy] Reference

"But self-abnegation has its reward, Susie," said Brother Tom, lifting his eyebrows and shrugging his shoulders.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 100, April, 1876] Reference

Nevertheless, from this egoistic root springs a flower which disseminates the perfume of a saintly self-abnegation.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Handbook of Ethical Theory] Reference

That same fine and rare quality of self-abnegation which has inspired missionaries 'lives and martyrs' deaths, inspired.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hetty's Strange History] Reference

He vowed costly sacrifices to them, adding promises of self-abnegation which became more comprehensive as his distress increased.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Yoke A Romance of the Days when the Lord Redeemed the Children of Israel from the Bondage of Egypt] Reference

It would be difficult for any words to do justice to his life of self-abnegation or to his adherence to the precepts of his Divine.    From Wordnik.com.  [As I Remember Recollections of American Society during the Nineteenth Century] Reference

And, notwithstanding the temptations to enrich himself, by which he was surrounded, Clive adhered to this resolution of self-abnegation.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.III. From George III. to Victoria] Reference

The attitude of our Government has been strictly neutral, neutral to the verge of utter self-abnegation; and, as some regard it, timidity.    From Wordnik.com.  [The New York Times Current History of the European War, Vol. 1, January 9, 1915 What Americans Say to Europe] Reference

Examples of individual daring and individual self-abnegation during this glorious though ineffectual fight were too numerous to be quoted.    From Wordnik.com.  [South Africa and the Transvaal War, Vol. 2 (of 6) From the Commencement of the War to the Battle of Colenso, 15th Dec. 1899] Reference

Every task that is worth while is won by self-sacrifice, by self-abnegation, by patient, persistent, enthusiastic effort, and in no other way.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Eugenic Marriage, Volume I. (of IV.) A Personal Guide to the New Science of Better Living and Better Babies] Reference

No real artist or philosopher ever lived who has not at some hours risen to the height of utter self-abnegation for the glory of the invisible.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 2, No. 14, December 1858] Reference

In another place he speaks of her unswerving, calm devotion -- her entire self-abnegation, as beyond all he has seen of the like traits elsewhere.    From Wordnik.com.  [Woman's Work in the Civil War A Record of Heroism, Patriotism, and Patience] Reference

Jake, his ugly face in a transport, had fallen to his knees, was crawling forward to the statue abjectly, mouthing phrases of worship and self-abnegation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Valley of the Croen] Reference

And then in the Long Meadow, he had set the girlish feet upon the trail he had blazed out for them during the nights of temptation and days of lonely self-abnegation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Joyce of the North Woods] Reference

She knew what her total submission meant: it was an end to all individualism, a complete self-abnegation, an absolute surrender to his wishes, his moods and his temper.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Sheik] Reference

They have no sympathies with the saints and heroes who have been great through self-abnegation, for such lives are a constant reproach to their own sybaritical tendencies.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Continental Monthly, Vol. III, No. V, May, 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy] Reference

It is pleasant to record that the Board of Trade, exhibiting the same spirit of self-abnegation, has insisted on substituting the time-honoured inscription, "Made in Germany.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, 1920-03-31] Reference