abnegation is part of life in an abbey. From LearnThat.org.
And this isn't always the easiest thing because a great deal of self-discipline and even self-abnegation is called for. From Wordnik.com. [New Directions in Foreign Policy] Reference
This may be called the abnegation theory, and its origin may be fairly explained by considering it as derived from the original gift theory. ". From Wordnik.com. [Archeological Expedition to Arizona in 1895 Seventeenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1895-1896, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1898, pages 519-744] Reference
"Natural Selection;" also self-abnegation and asceticism. From Wordnik.com. [On the Genesis of Species] Reference
Indeed no sacrifice, no self-abnegation, was too great for her. From Wordnik.com. [The Menorah Journal, Volume 1, 1915] Reference
Buddhism starts with the idea of the entire abnegation of self. From Wordnik.com. [Religion in Japan] 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
The one represents the abnegation of self in woman's way -- she gives service. From Wordnik.com. [Great Artists, Vol 1. Raphael, Rubens, Murillo, and Durer] Reference
M. Godin, on the contrary, seemed retiring almost to the point of self-abnegation. From Wordnik.com. [The Darrow Enigma] Reference
"Because I make abnegation of this world, and thou makest abnegation of the next.". From Wordnik.com. [The Faith of Islam] 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
The human being, born into a world where choices must be made, must make continual abnegation. From Wordnik.com. [Human Traits and their Social Significance] 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
Nor is there much to attract in the singular abnegation of civilized happiness in a slaver's career. From Wordnik.com. [Captain Canot or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver] Reference
The act, of itself, is the abnegation of that same right which it is designed or intended to assert. From Wordnik.com. [The Right of American Slavery] Reference
The reason for this abnegation of duty and decency lies in ignorance, and timidity verging on cowardice. From Wordnik.com. [Let Them Rest In Peace] Reference
It was regarded as a feeble wail of despair, an absolute abnegation of the powers of the general government. From Wordnik.com. [Recollections of Forty Years in the House, Senate and Cabinet An Autobiography.] 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
Vanity, abnegation, pride, and disinterestedness are united together, and man in his entirety appears in the papa. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] 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
But its voice was soon stifled, and its children were rewarded for their abnegation by punishment, martyrdom and death. From Wordnik.com. [The Philippine Islands] Reference
As Brown once put it: "The 12th rule is to let him in all things seek his greater mortification and continuing abnegation.". From Wordnik.com. [Fewer incumbent governors are seeking reelection] Reference
True modesty is quite compatible with a true estimate of one's own merits, and does not demand the abnegation of all merit. From Wordnik.com. [How to Get on in the World A Ladder to Practical Success] Reference
If you do not think this, then there is only the other extreme of austere abnegation of self for any cause however trivial. From Wordnik.com. [Nelka Mrs. Helen de Smirnoff Moukhanoff, 1878-1963, a Biographical Sketch] Reference
A famous mystic was brought into the presence of the Khalíf Hárún-ur-Rashíd who said to him: "How great is thy abnegation?". From Wordnik.com. [The Faith of Islam] 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
By declining the top job, Gandhi, already the nation's most popular politician, enhanced her stature in a culture that prizes abnegation. From Wordnik.com. [DOUBLE VISION] 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
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
The Dutch, it would appear, quieted any qualms of conscience by regarding their action as amounting to an abnegation, not of Christianity, but of Romanism. From Wordnik.com. [Religion in Japan] Reference
After having offered to the world a great example of pride, of abnegation, of heroism, they are again giving to it a deeper lesson, a more valuable, a more efficacious one. From Wordnik.com. [New York Times Current History; The European War, Vol 2, No. 5, August, 1915] Reference
Let no woman who, alone it may be, goes steadfastly on her way of duty and self-abnegation, think she has lived in vain because the special lot of woman has been denied her. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 4, August, 1864 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
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