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Definition of Self-sacrificing
1. Adjective. Willing to deprive yourself.
Definition of Self-sacrificing
1. Adjective. Making, or willing to make, a self-sacrifice. ¹
2. Verb. (present participle of self-sacrifice) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Self-sacrificing
Literary usage of Self-sacrificing
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"... may have been somewhat deficient, but their priestly character was moulded by
daily intercourse with the self-sacrificing pioneer bishops and priests. ..."
2. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"... may have been somewhat deficient, but their priestly character was moulded by
daily intercourse with the self-sacrificing pioneer bishops and priests. ..."
3. The Secret Doctrine: The Synthesis of Science, Religion, and Philosophy by Helena Petrovna Blavatsky (1897)
"The initiatory rite in the Mysteries of the self-sacrificing Victim that dies a
spiritual death to save the world from destruction—really from ..."
4. The Annals of Tennessee to the End of the Eighteenth Century: Comprising Its by James Gettys McGready Ramsey (1853)
"... when the self-sacrificing.toil and the daring hardihood of the pioneers of
Tennessee will be forgotten or undervalued by their posterity. ..."
5. Cotton is King, and Pro-slavery Arguments: Comprising the Writings of by David Christy, Albert Taylor Bledsoe, Thornton Stringfellow, Robert Goodloe Harper, James Henry Hammond, Samuel Adolphus Cartwright, Charles Hodge (1860)
"Let them rouse the real, active, self-sacrificing benevolence of the whole
Christian world in behalf of that most degraded portion of the human family; and, ..."
6. The Principles of Judicial Proof: As Given by Logic, Psychology, and General by John Henry Wigmore (1913)
"THE self-sacrificing BROTHER'S CASE. (ANON. Green Bag. 1891. Vol. Ill, p. 8.)
Years ago (said one of the well- known members of the Louisville Bar), ..."
7. Primitive Piety Revived: Or, The Aggressive Power of the Christian Church. A by Henry Clay Fish, Congregational Board of Publication (1855)
"A Return to the Simplicity of former Days a pressing Necessity. — Not safe for
God's Children to follow after the World. —The Self- sacrificing Spirit waits ..."
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