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What is a self-abnegation?

What is a self-abnegation? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. The denial or invalidation of one's own needs, interests, etc. in the sake of another's; the setting aside of self-interest
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Heroic self-abnegation was, as it has been for two millennia, one of the few.
This homage also goes to the team that worked under him, at his pace with self-abnegation and confidence.
Submission to authority, self-abnegation and conformism had led the Japanese to disaster.
Democracy proved that it had not only the greater numbers, but also the courage, the self-abnegation and the endurance.
Obeying the guru required discipline and self-abnegation, an exercise that was always beneficial to the spiritual aspirant.
Breaking the link between fossil fuel and our energy-fueled lifestyle requires a certain amount of self-abnegation.

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