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self-sacrificing

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1. self-sacrificing - Adjective

2. self-sacrificing - Verb

3. self-sacrificing - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Yielding up one's own interest, ffeelings, etc; sacrificing one's self.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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Examples

There is something in the unselfish and self-sacrificing love of a brute, which goes directly to the heart of him who has had frequent occasion to test the paltry friendship and gossamer fidelity of mere Man. Edgar Allan Poe

The world is perishing from an orgy of self-sacrificing. Ayn Rand

Lord Caversham: No woman, plain or pretty, has any common sense at all, sir. Common sense is the privilege of our sex. Lord Goring: Quite so. And we men are so self-sacrificing that we never use it, do we, father? Oscar Wilde

Either fraternity is spontaneous, or it does not exist. To decree it is to annihilate it. The law can indeed force men to remain just; in vain would it try to force them to be self-sacrificing. Frédéric Bastiat

It is a cruel proof of the want of generosity in human nature, that an affection too utterly self-sacrificing always meets with an evil return. Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Depend upon it, my younger brethren, the bright, self-sacrificing enthusiasms of early manhood are among the most precious things in the whole course of human life. Henry Liddon

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