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12 words match “SELF-DENIAL”

SELF-DENIAL n.
The denial of one's self; forbearing to gratify one's own desires; self-sacrifice.
ABSTINENCE n.
The practice of self-denial by depriving one's self of certain kinds of food or drink, especially of meat. Penance, fasts, and abstinence, To punish bodies for the soul's offense. Dryden.
ASCETIC a. 2 definitions
Extremely rigid in self-denial and devotions; austere; severe. The stern ascetic rigor of the Temple discipline. Sir W. Scott.
ASSOCIATION n.
nion; connection, whether of persons of things. "Some . . . bond of association." Hooker. Self-denial is a kind of holy association with God. Boyle.
COST v. 2 definitions
woe. Milton. To cost dear, to require or occasion a large outlay of money, or much labor, self-denial, suffering, etc.
DENIAL n.
's self, a declining of some gratification; restraint of one's appetites or propensities; self-denial.
DENY v.
le. To deny one's self, to decline the gratification of appetites or desires; to practice self-denial. Let him deny himself, and take up his cross. Matt. xvi. 24.
FRUIT n.
uct or result; disadvantageous or evil consequence or effect; as, the fruits of labor, of self-denial, of intemperance. The fruit of rashness. Shak. What I obtained was the fruit of no bargain. Burke. They shall eat the fruit of their doings. Is. iii 10. The fruits of this education became visible. Macaulay.…
PLEASURE n.
dissipating enjoyment; hence, sensual gratification; -- opposed to labor, service, duty, self-denial, etc. "Not sunk in carnal pleasure." Milton. He that loveth pleasure shall be a poor man. Prov. xxi. 17. Lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God. 2 Tim. iii. 4.
SELF-ABNEGATION n.
Self-denial; self-renunciation; self-sacrifice.
SELF-INDULGENCE n.
ence of one's appetites, desires, or inclinations; -- the opposite of self-restraint, and self-denial.
TRANSHUMANIZE v.
more than human; to purity; to elevate above humanity. [R.] Souls purified by sorrow and self-denial, transhumanized to the divine abstraction of pure contemplation. Lowell.