self-abnegatory

You gotta know all those cold showers and mouldy tapioca puddings they were fed made for an extremely self-abnegatory life.

"The GOP has persuaded the public of the wisdom of its fetish for populating the U.S. coastline with oil rigs." Ann Althouse 2008

These are not easy men to like or understand, because so much of their Christianity at once so strict, and self-abnegatory; therefore unmodern is based on anti-semitism which runs rife in Russian history, regardless of epoch.

"It is within the power of writers and artists to do much more: to defeat the lie!" Ann Althouse 2008

And if he is dragged up into the higher regions of a self-abnegatory religion, six times in ten he falls back damaged, a morally maimed man, into his old swampy country fashion valley.

Travels in West Africa 2003

Women are so terrifically self-abnegatory; they must give, give, give, to someone all the time.

Dangerous Ages Rose Macaulay 1919

But eminent spirits such as Bede's are, by their very eminence, less representative of the process -- essentially fugitive and self-abnegatory -- than the thousands of copyists who have left no name behind them.

On The Art of Reading Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903

And if he is dragged up into the higher regions of a self-abnegatory religion, six times in ten he falls back damaged, a morally maimed man, into his old swampy country fashion valley.

Travels in West Africa Mary H. Kingsley 1881

I am indeed the most fortunate of men; for who but my Alice _could_ be so sweet and self-abnegatory as to take upon her own dear little shoulders the burden of responsibilities that elsewise would weigh upon her husband?

The House An Episode in the Lives of Reuben Baker, Astronomer, and of His Wife, Alice Eugene Field 1872

Washington, to the point where taking $887,727 from Goldman Sachs is positively self-abnegatory.

Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion 2011

Washington, to the point where taking $887,727 from Goldman Sachs is positively self-abnegatory.

Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion 2011

In India, something similar in its homespun socialism and self-abnegatory philosophy of ahimsa combined to suppress its people from their talents and aspirations.

nst online 2010