abnegation

• Those who survive torture and attacks either fade into meek self-abnegation or, like Sani, break away.
• His self-abnegation, his young heroism made him for the moment as finely luminous as she was. —  Sally of Missouri
• And the number of those who have preserved a heart during the excitement and passions of such eras, is always very small, and without it they cannot be saved, for love and self-abnegation are the essence of Christianity To instil new life and hope into the wearied 'Man,' the Angel ordains that a pure and good woman shall join her fate with his; that innocent young souls shall descend and dwell with them. —  The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 3, September 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy
• Self-abnegation, the duty of Eve, is hardly within the right of Adam; and Dr. Johnson expressed a half-truth in violently paradoxical terms when he said that Milton "thought woman made only for obedience and man only for rebellion." —  Milton
• Parzival then led a new life of abstinence and self-abnegation, and a wise hermit became his instructor. —  Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook, Vol. 3

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