self-denying
11self-denying — See self denial. * * * …
12self-denying — adjective Without concern for ones own advantage; selfless or self sacrificing …
13self-denying — a. Self sacrificing, devoted, generous, unselfish, disinterested …
14renunciant renunciative self-abnegating self-denying — nonindulgent onindulgent adj. 1. not indulgent. [Narrower terms: {austere, forbidding, stern ; {blue(prenominal), puritan, puritanical ; {corrective, disciplinary, disciplinal ; {monkish ; {renunciant, renunciative, self abnegating, self denying… …
15SELF-DENYING ORDINANCE — a resolution of the Long Parliament passed in 1644, whereby the members bound themselves not to accept certain executive offices, particularly commands in the army …
16Self-refuting idea — Self refuting ideas are ideas or statements whose falsehood is a logical consequence of the act or situation of holding them to be true. Many ideas are accused by their detractors of being self refuting, and such accusations are therefore almost… …
17self-ab|ne|gat|ing — «SEHLF AB nuh GAY tihng», adjective. = self denying. (Cf. ↑self denying) …
18Self — Self, n.; pl. {Selves}. 1. The individual as the object of his own reflective consciousness; the man viewed by his own cognition as the subject of all his mental phenomena, the agent in his own activities, the subject of his own feelings, and the …
19Self-denyingly — Self denying Self de*ny ing, a. Refusing to gratify one s self; self sacrificing. {Self de*ny ing*ly}, adv. [1913 Webster] …
20self-denial — self denying, adj. self denyingly, adv. /self di nuy euhl, self /, n. 1. the sacrifice of one s own desires; unselfishness. 2. an act or instance of restraining or curbing one s desires: To reduce, one has to practice self denial at the dinner… …