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self-sac·ri·fice
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self-sacrifice
Self-control is holding oneself within due limits in pleasures and duties, as in all things else; self-denial, the giving up of pleasures for the sake of duty. Self-renunciation surrenders conscious rights and claims; self-abnegation forgets that there is anything to surrender. There have been devotees who practised very little self-denial with very much self-renunciation. A mother will care for a sick child with complete self-abnegation, but without a thought of self-denial. Self-devotion is heart-consecration of self to a person or cause with readiness for any needed sacrifice. Self-sacrifice is the strongest and completest term of all, and contemplates the gift of self as actually made. We speak of the self-sacrifice of Christ, where any other of the above terms would be feeble or inappropriate.
Synonyms:
self-abnegation, self-control, self-denial, self-devotion, self-immolation, self-renunciationAntonyms:
self-gratification, self-indulgence, self-seeking, self-will, selfishness
Princeton's WordNet
selflessness, self-sacrificenoun
acting with less concern for yourself than for the success of the joint activity
Synonyms:
altruism, selflessness
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How to use self-sacrifice in a sentence?
For anything worth having one must pay the price; and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice -- no paper currency, no promises to pay, but the gold of real service.
We are here to add to the sum of human goodness. To prove the thing exists. And however futile each individual act of courage or generosity, self-sacrifice or grace-it still proves the thing exists. Each act adds to the fund. It needs replenishment. Not only because evil flourishes, and is, most indefensibly, defended. But because goodness is no longer a respectable aim in life. The hound of hell, envy, has driven it from the house.
He who gives what he would as readily throw away, gives without generosity; for the essence of generosity is in self sacrifice.
This is a symbolic action, using a legal loophole and participants' self-sacrifice to draw attention to the most serious and urgent crisis humanity has ever faced, the government's inaction on climate change, and the looming catastrophe of airport expansion, gives us no choice and compels us to act.
Self interest feeds more people than self sacrifice.
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- fədakarlıqAzerbaijani
- sebeobětováníCzech
- SelbstaufopferungGerman
- memoferoEsperanto
- autosacrificioSpanish
- uhrautuminenFinnish
- sacrifice de soi, auto-sacrificeFrench
- आत्मत्यागHindi
- autosacrificioItalian
- 自己犠牲Japanese
- sui sacrificium,Latin
- самопожртвување, самопрегорMacedonian
- samopoświęceniePolish
- самопожертвованиеRussian
- samoodricanje, samopregor, samožrtvovanjeSerbo-Croatian
- självuppoffringSwedish
- özveri, fedakârlıkTurkish
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