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    SELF-DENYING

    Pronunciation (US): Play  (GB): Play

     I. (adjective) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    Used especially of behaviorplay

    Synonyms:

    renunciant; renunciative; self-abnegating; self-denying

    Classified under:

    Adjectives

    Similar:

    nonindulgent; strict (characterized by strictness, severity, or restraint)

    Sense 2

    Meaning:

    Willing to deprive yourselfplay

    Synonyms:

    self-denying; self-giving; self-sacrificing

    Classified under:

    Adjectives

    Similar:

    unselfish (disregarding your own advantages and welfare over those of others)

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     Context examples: 

    I endeavoured to convert what might have been between myself and Agnes, into a means of making me more self-denying, more resolved, more conscious of myself, and my defects and errors.

    (David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

    I wanted to see how you would come out of the trial, Trot; and you came out nobly—persevering, self-reliant, self-denying!

    (David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

    In her stead, the perfect likeness of the picture, a child likeness no more, moves about the house; and Agnes—my sweet sister, as I call her in my thoughts, my counsellor and friend, the better angel of the lives of all who come within her calm, good, self-denying influence—is quite a woman.

    (David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

    That Peggotty was the best, the truest, the most faithful, most devoted, and most self-denying friend and servant in the world; who had ever loved me dearly, who had ever loved my mother dearly; who had held my mother's dying head upon her arm, on whose face my mother had imprinted her last grateful kiss.

    (David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)


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