Self-sacrificing

adj, verb

adj, verb ·Uncommon ·Advanced level

Definitions

Verb
  1. 1
    present participle and gerund of self-sacrifice form-of, gerund, participle, present
Adjective
  1. 1
    Making, or willing to make, a self-sacrifice.

    "Mother Teresa's self-sacrificing nature made her world-famous."

Adjective
  1. 1
    willing to deprive yourself wordnet

Synonyms

All synonyms
abstemiousaltruisticcommittedconsecrateddedicateddevoted

Example

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"Audubon was blessed with good health, length of years, a devoted and self-sacrificing wife, and a buoyant, sanguine, and elastic disposition. He had the heavenly gift of enthusiasm—a passionate love for the work he set out to do. He was a natural hunter, roamer, woodsman; as unworldly as a child, and as simple and transparent. We have had better trained and more scientific ornithologists since his day, but none with his abandon and poetic fervour in the study of our birds."

Etymology

From self- + sacrificing.

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