self-sacrificing
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5.5
- adjective
- /ˌsɛlfˈsækrɪfaɪsɪŋ/
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altruista
- The nurse was self-sacrificing, often staying late to care for her patients when they needed her most.
- self-sacrificing love
- self-sacrificing mother
- self-sacrificing individual
I mean, people do very heroic things that are, you know, self sacrificing and things of that nature.
- I mean, people do very heroic things that are, you know, self sacrificing and things of that nature.
- But Hadrian earned great admiration by his self sacrificing gesture of retaining Agrippa's name.
- This is an unconditional self sacrificing love.
- The time worn idea that a spouse, especially a wife, should be self sacrificing.
- Again, self sacrificing behavior becomes the proxy for whether you actually feel love or affection or friendship.
- It is self sacrificing and benevolent in spirit.
Examples
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It is self sacrificing and benevolent in spirit.
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Yet people can also be remarkably self-sacrificing, sometimes even with apparently unselfish motives.
Blog text (15) -
Quite so and we men are so self-sacrificing we never use it, do we, father?
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And time and time again he just chose to to do this self sacrificing thing and continue to work.
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I mean, people do very heroic things that are, you know, self sacrificing and things of that nature.
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Now, you have been loyal and you have been loving... ...and you have been self-sacrificing.
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Such a self-sacrificing, noble gentleman... handsome, too, from what I hear.
Fiction book (2001) -
Courageous, self-sacrificing people... ...setting examples for all of us.
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Not all such caretaking is as self-sacrificing as it may appear.
Academic text (2009) -
While Anna projected forcefulness, Camilla was obedient and self-sacrificing.
Academic text (1994)
Synonyms
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3.2
Caring more about other people's needs than your own
23
6.7
Wanting to help other people even when it costs you
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2.0
Willing to put other people's needs before your own
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7.3
Ready to put other people's needs before your own and help them
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7.0
Ready to put other people's needs before your own
To put other people's needs before your own
Antonyms
How Self-Sacrificing
Surface Forms
Morphology
self-sacrificing = self-sacrifice (transparent) = self + sacrifice + ing
The adjective is formed directly from the noun 'self-sacrifice' with the participial suffix '-ing', and the meaning follows compositionally from its parts.
Etymology
Self-sacrificing is made of self ('your own') and sacrifice ('to give up something important, often as an offering'). The word sacrifice came from people offering things to the 'sacred', so self-sacrificing means choosing to give up your own needs for others.