selfdevotion

In this grotesque friendship all the loyalty, the patience, the selfdevotion, was on the side of the mistress.

The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 3 Thomas Babington Macaulay Macaulay 1829

Her deportment was the subject of reams of scurrility in prose and verse: it lowered her in the opinion of some whose esteem she valued; nor did the world know, till she was beyond the reach of praise and censure, that the conduct which had brought on her the reproach of levity and insensibility was really a signal instance of that perfect disinterestedness and selfdevotion of which man seems to be incapable, but which is sometimes found in woman.

The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 2 Thomas Babington Macaulay Macaulay 1829