Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act of renouncing one's own rights or claims; self-abnegation.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The act of renouncing, or setting aside, one's own wishes, claims, etc.; self-sacrifice.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun renunciation of your own interests in favor of the interests of others
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Examples
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Despite his self-renunciation, it is the first version of his comments that activist teachers and their advocates are seizing on as accurate.
Richard Lee Colvin: Snatching Defeat From the Mouth of Victory Richard Lee Colvin 2011
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Sufis, Islamic mystics, practice self-renunciation as a means to escape the exile from God that life really is, but rarely succeed.
Muqtedar Khan: Ramadan: A Month Of Longing Muqtedar Khan 2011
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Despite his self-renunciation, it is the first version of his comments that activist teachers and their advocates are seizing on as accurate.
Richard Lee Colvin: Snatching Defeat From the Mouth of Victory Richard Lee Colvin 2011
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Despite his self-renunciation, it is the first version of his comments that activist teachers and their advocates are seizing on as accurate.
Richard Lee Colvin: Snatching Defeat From the Mouth of Victory Richard Lee Colvin 2011
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Sufis, Islamic mystics, practice self-renunciation as a means to escape the exile from God that life really is, but rarely succeed.
Muqtedar Khan: Ramadan: A Month Of Longing Muqtedar Khan 2011
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Despite his self-renunciation, it is the first version of his comments that activist teachers and their advocates are seizing on as accurate.
Richard Lee Colvin: Snatching Defeat From the Mouth of Victory Richard Lee Colvin 2011
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The way of sorrows, the way of pain, the way of self-renunciation, the way of My cross.
Archive 2010-03-01 Alex Tang 2010
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The emphasis is more on practice or "praxis" -- spiritual living, self-renunciation, insight or enlightenment -- and among ordinary people, a sort of cult or caretaking of the gods like that practiced by ancient pagans.
Valerie Tarico: Christian Belief Through The Lens of Cognitive Science, Part 1 of 6 2009
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A countless number of members of religious orders, through their Constitutions having been re-written and their minds re-trained according to Vatican II, show that they have lost the spirit of the Gospel, in particular, self-renunciation, poverty and sacrifice.
Archive 2009-04-01 2009
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The little mermaid is doomed, but she ultimately finds redemption in her self-renunciation, and comes to a better place.
Archive 2009-07-01 Matterhorn 2009
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