He got up, having found some comfort in complete self-abnegation.

Paul could say likewise that his ministry was one of self-abnegation.

And insofar as college was concerned, my parents' strategy of self-abnegation worked.

Nowhere may such self-abnegation be more pronounced than in rap music.

There is in this an all-too-familiar note of Western self-abnegation.

Rather, he was maintaining a lifelong interest in self-abnegation and transformation.

Are you not afraid, in her great self-abnegation, that her own health will give way?

There is something to this: throughout his career, self-abnegation was Washington's shtick.

You just brought a philosophy of rigorous self-abnegation to a pastry fight, my friends.

What we really have is a crisis of self-abnegation, a concern that has become increasingly apparent, on many levels, since Sept. 11.

In critical times, their acts of self-sacrifice and self-abnegation were apparent.

All too often such children doom themselves psychologically to lives of self-abnegation and misery.

Even Carter, a religious man whose faith called for self-abnegation, sometimes slid over into self-congratulation.

But she can make them meet up with French-style self-abnegation when she wants to.

You understand, of course, that it is only by serving and self-abnegation that we advance in the higher world.

But one day, if the long sickness of self-abnegation and denigration is ever over, we shall have to do it.

Compassion is the deliberately cultivated power of self-abnegation and Self-fulfilment.

Never before in history had even the traditional monastic refuge been thought to endanger true self-abnegation.

Turning now to the poems where the I dominates we find some instances of apparent self-abnegation.

He is remembered for his letters advocating extreme self-abnegation.

The hermits’ fierce self-abnegation, their holy self-emptying seemed to her thrilling.

He seemed to welcome adversity, for its uses, and fairly reveled in self-abnegation.

Increasingly, they became advocates of self-abnegation, prayer, and suffering as the foremost female virtues.

She had a woman's natural tendency towards asceticism, self-extinction, self-abnegation.

Years of planning and searching to recover his compromised integrity had taught him at least that much self-abnegation.