Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Sacrifice of one's personal interests or well-being for the sake of others or for a cause.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Sacrifice of what commonly constitutes the happiness of life for the sake of duty or other high motive; the preference for altruistic over egotistical considerations.
- noun Synonyms Austerity, Asceticism, etc. (see
self-denial ), self-abnegation, self-forgetfulness.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The act of sacrificing one's self, or one's interest, for others; self-devotion.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The giving up of one's own
benefit , especially giving up one's life, for the good of others.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun acting with less concern for yourself than for the success of the joint activity
Etymologies
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Examples
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The three Power Plant cutouts are based on the idea of self-sacrifice in time of crisis, much like the Japanese power plant emergency workers risking their lives for the greater good of their disaster-stricken country.
Bovey Lee's Elegaic Crisis Cutouts Inspired By Japan's Tsunami And Power Plants The Huffington Post News Editors 2011
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The three Power Plant cutouts are based on the idea of self-sacrifice in time of crisis, much like the Japanese power plant emergency workers risking their lives for the greater good of their disaster-stricken country.
Bovey Lee's Elegaic Crisis Cutouts Inspired By Japan's Tsunami And Power Plants The Huffington Post News Editors 2011
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While serving in the army, Johnson began a side career as a writer of short stories for magazines in which boys in the military learn discipline, loyalty, and self-sacrifice, and make themselves into men.
A Renegade History of the United States Thaddeus Russell 2010
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Anyone who really wanted to get rid of suffering would have to get rid of love before anything else, because there can be no love without suffering, because it always demands an element of self-sacrifice, because, given temperamental differences and the drama of situations, it will always bring with it renunciation and pain.
Pope Benedict XVI 2009
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Anyone who really wanted to get rid of suffering would have to get rid of love before anything else, because there can be no love without suffering, because it always demands an element of self-sacrifice, because, given temperamental differences and the drama of situations, it will always bring with it renunciation and pain.
Liturgy 2009
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He was pleased at her logic—and at her self-sacrifice.
Judge deveraux The Scent of Jasmine 2011
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And the series is lifted by the climax: epic final battle, self-sacrifice, and a decent resolution.
January Books 11) The Wandering Fire 12) The Darkest Road, by Guy Gavriel Kay nwhyte 2010
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Maturity is about self-awareness and self-sacrifice, but not about less fun.
The Lo-Down Lo Bosworth 2011
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Academics have concluded the values drummed into their grandparents, such as a strong work ethic and self-sacrifice, have been lost in the relentless quest for self-fulfilment.
Young Adults of Today Have an Over-Inflated Sense of Entitlement | Impact Lab 2010
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Meanwhile, Rose, who at one point complains that she's not good at anything, is shown to have been really good at the kind of self-sacrifice that is really self-punishment.
Lance Mannion: 2009
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