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单词 self-abnegating
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Definition of self-abnegating in English:

self-abnegating

adjective
  • Renouncing or rejecting one's own interests or needs.

    a loving and self-abnegating mother
    Example sentencesExamples
    • She would not patronize organizations that promoted issues she did not support, but her generous, self-abnegating soul endeared her to the many women's clubs she did support.
    • The authors show the emotional and psychic struggles of the protagonists as they negotiate between the values of capitalist America and the self-sacrificing and self-abnegating attitudes of Filipino immigrants.
    • The Mother is either idealized, as in the myths of the nurturing, ever-present but self-abnegating figure, or disparaged, as in the corollary myth of the sadistic, neglectful Mother who puts her needs first.
    • For a species which climbed to the top of the food chain by dint of its willingness to experiment, this is an astonishingly self-abnegating philosophy, and one which flies in the face of everything we know about human experience.
    • Meanwhile, back in the 21st century, the self-abnegating Maud and Roland are engaged in a tentative mating dance.
    • In the 1990s, books such as The Rules, which outlined a rigorous and often self-abnegating plan for modern dating, represented a well-intentioned, if doomed, attempt to revive the old courting boundaries.
    • Alice gave up her next twenty years in the self-abnegating spirit that was always characteristic of her.
    • Matched with such a brilliant, but by no means self-abnegating husband, she might have been in danger of living in his shadow.
    • It's great to see the self-abnegating Cathy acquire self-confidence, but it's a shame she isn't given a bit more justification for that confidence.
    • Sadistic, hurtful, and jealous, she refuses the self-abnegating role, demanding her own life.
    • There was a mass hunger for a public style that was understated, self-abnegating, modest and spare.
    Synonyms
    austere, self-denying, abstinent, abstemious, non-indulgent, self-disciplined, frugal, simple, rigorous, strict, severe, hair-shirt, spartan, monastic, monkish, nunlike

Definition of self-abnegating in US English:

self-abnegating

adjective
  • Renouncing or rejecting one's own interests or needs.

    a loving and self-abnegating mother
    Example sentencesExamples
    • There was a mass hunger for a public style that was understated, self-abnegating, modest and spare.
    • In the 1990s, books such as The Rules, which outlined a rigorous and often self-abnegating plan for modern dating, represented a well-intentioned, if doomed, attempt to revive the old courting boundaries.
    • Matched with such a brilliant, but by no means self-abnegating husband, she might have been in danger of living in his shadow.
    • The Mother is either idealized, as in the myths of the nurturing, ever-present but self-abnegating figure, or disparaged, as in the corollary myth of the sadistic, neglectful Mother who puts her needs first.
    • Alice gave up her next twenty years in the self-abnegating spirit that was always characteristic of her.
    • She would not patronize organizations that promoted issues she did not support, but her generous, self-abnegating soul endeared her to the many women's clubs she did support.
    • It's great to see the self-abnegating Cathy acquire self-confidence, but it's a shame she isn't given a bit more justification for that confidence.
    • Meanwhile, back in the 21st century, the self-abnegating Maud and Roland are engaged in a tentative mating dance.
    • For a species which climbed to the top of the food chain by dint of its willingness to experiment, this is an astonishingly self-abnegating philosophy, and one which flies in the face of everything we know about human experience.
    • Sadistic, hurtful, and jealous, she refuses the self-abnegating role, demanding her own life.
    • The authors show the emotional and psychic struggles of the protagonists as they negotiate between the values of capitalist America and the self-sacrificing and self-abnegating attitudes of Filipino immigrants.
    Synonyms
    austere, self-denying, abstinent, abstemious, non-indulgent, self-disciplined, frugal, simple, rigorous, strict, severe, hair-shirt, spartan, monastic, monkish, nunlike
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