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Self-renunciation   Listen
noun
Self-renunciation  n.  The act of renouncing, or setting aside, one's own wishes, claims, etc.; self-sacrifice.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Self-renunciation" Quotes from Famous Books



... NEW to say on the subject?" interposed Heliobas, with a slight smile. "I have heard all this so often before, from divers kinds of men both educated and ignorant, who have a willful habit of forgetting all that Christ Himself prophesied concerning His creed of Self-renunciation, so difficult to selfish humanity: 'Think not that I come to send peace on the earth. I come, not to send peace, but a sword.' Again 'Ye shall be hated of all men for my name's sake.' ... 'all ye shall be offended because of ...
— Ardath - The Story of a Dead Self • Marie Corelli



Words linked to "Self-renunciation" :   self-abnegation, selflessness, forgoing, forswearing, renunciation



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