Word Meanings - SELF-DENIAL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The denial of one's self; forbearing to gratify one's own desires; self-sacrifice.

SACRIFICE
1. The offering of anything to God, or to a god; consecratory rite. Great pomp, and sacrifice, and praises loud, To Dagon. Milton. 2. Anything consecrated and offered to God, or to a divinity; an immolated victin, or an offering of any kind, laid
FORBEARER
One who forbears. Tusser.
GRATIFY
1. To please; to give pleasure to; to satisfy; to soothe; to indulge; as, to gratify the taste, the appetite, the senses, the desires, the mind, etc. For who would die to gratify a foe Dryden. 2. To requite; to recompense. It remains
DENIAL
1. The act of gainsaying, refusing, or disowning; negation; -- the contrary of affirmation. You ought to converse with so much sincerity that your bare affirmation or denial may be sufficient. Bp. Stillingfleet. 2. A refusal to admit the truth
FORBEAR
An ancestor; a forefather; -- usually in the plural. "Your forbears of old." Sir W. Scott.
FORBEARANT
Forbearing. Carlyle.
FORBEARANCE
The act of forbearing or waiting; the exercise of patience. He soon shall findForbearance no acquittance ere day end. Milton. 2. The quality of being forbearing; indulgence toward offenders or enemies; long-suffering. Have a continent forbearance,
FORBEARING
Disposed or accustomed to forbear; patient; long-suffering. -- For*bear"ing*ly, adv.
SACRIFICER
One who sacrifices.
SELF-DENIAL
The denial of one's self; forbearing to gratify one's own desires; self-sacrifice.
SELF-SACRIFICE
The act of sacrificing one's self, or one's interest, for others; self-devotion.