Self-sacrificer
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 A person who offers himself or herself as a sacrifice (as a religious act, for example).
"[…] they even willingly forfeit all the rest, and turn as it were Martyrs and Self-sacrificers to but so faint a Shadow or scant Resemblance of the first uncreated Perfection […]"
- 2 A person who is self-sacrificing, who sacrifices their own benefit for the good of another or others.
"1856, Amelia M. Murray, Letters from the United States, Cuba and Canada, New York: Putnam, Letter 23, pp. 281-282, Northern clergymen in Florida, Scotch ministers in the North, and bishops with dioceses each as large as all England; men devoted to religion, charity, and learning—self-sacrificers, fearless, incorruptible […]"
Example
More examples"[…] they even willingly forfeit all the rest, and turn as it were Martyrs and Self-sacrificers to but so faint a Shadow or scant Resemblance of the first uncreated Perfection […]"
Etymology
From self- + sacrificer or self-sacrifice + -er.
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