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Word Meanings - SELF-SACRIFICE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The act of sacrificing one's self, or one's interest, for others; self-devotion.

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  • DEVOTIONALLY
    In a devotional manner; toward devotion.
  • PIETY
    1. Veneration or reverence of the Supreme Being, and love of his character; loving obedience to the will of God, and earnest devotion to his service. Piety is the only proper and adequate relief of decaying man. Rambler. 2. Duty; dutifulness;
  • DEDICATION
    1. The act of setting apart or consecrating to a divine Being, or to a sacred use, often with religious solemnities; solemn appropriation; as, the dedication of Solomon's temple. 2. A devoting or setting aside for any particular purpose; as, a
  • DEVOUTNESS
    Quality or state of being devout.
  • CONSECRATION
    The act or ceremony of consecrating; the state of being consecrated; dedication. Until the days of your consecration be at an end. Lev. viii. 33. Consecration makes not a place sacred, but only solemny declares it so. South.
  • DEVOTIONAL
    Pertaining to, suited to, or used in, devotion; as, a devotional posture; devotional exercises; a devotional frame of mind.
  • RELIGIOUSNESS
    The quality of being religious.
  • DEVOTION
    1. The act of devoting; consecration. 2. The state of being devoted; addiction; eager inclination; strong attachment love or affection; zeal; especially, feelings toward God appropriately expressed by acts of worship; devoutness. Genius animated
  • DEVOTIONALITY
    The practice of a devotionalist. A. H. Clough.
  • SELF-SACRIFICE
    The act of sacrificing one's self, or one's interest, for others; self-devotion.
  • DEVOTIONALIST; DEVOTIONIST
    One given to devotion, esp. to excessive formal devotion.
  • ARDOR
    Bright and effulgent spirits; seraphim. Syn. -- Fervor; warmth; eagerness. See Fervor. (more info) 1. Heat, in a literal sense; as, the ardor of the sun's rays. 2. Warmth or heat of passion or affection; eagerness; zeal; as, he pursues study with
  • ATTACHMENT
    1. The act attaching, or state of being attached; close adherence or affection; fidelity; regard; anas, an attachment to a friend, or to a party. 2. That by which one thing is attached to another; connection; as, to cut the attachments of a muscle.
  • SELF-DEVOTION
    The act of devoting one's self, or the state of being self- devoted; willingness to sacrifice one's own advantage or happiness for the sake of others; self-sacrifice.
  • MISCONSECRATION
    Wrong consecration.
  • REATTACHMENT
    The act of reattaching; a second attachment.
  • IRRELIGIOUSNESS
    The state or quality of being irreligious; ungodliness.
  • MISDEVOTION
    Mistaken devotion.
  • UNDEVOTION
    Absence or want of devotion.
  • PREDEDICATION
    A dedication made previously or beforehand.
  • RECONSECRATION
    Renewed consecration.
  • REARDORSE; REARDOSS
    A reredos.
  • IMPIETY
    1. The quality of being impious; want of piety; irreverence toward the Supreme Being; ungodliness; wickedness. 2. An impious act; an act of wickednes. Those impieties for the which they are now visited. Shak. Syn. -- Ungodliness; irreligion;

 

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