self-renouncing

It was not possible she should hear anything but self-renouncing affection and respect in his assurance that he was contented for her to go away; and yet there remained an uneasy feeling in his mind that he had not said quite the right thing — that, somehow, Dinah had not understood him.

Adam Bede 2004

Such a woman as Lisbeth, for example — at once patient and complaining, self-renouncing and exacting, brooding the livelong day over what happened yesterday and what is likely to happen tomorrow, and crying very readily both at the good and the evil.

Adam Bede 2004

It is evident that Elizabeth Fry dared to be singular; very possibly only such self-renouncing singularity could have borne such remarkable fruits of philanthropy.

Elizabeth Fry Mrs. E. R. Pitman

Was there no room for a woman of the Salvation Army who is out of some hideous slum for a moment's breathing, before returning to it with a great self-renouncing life of love and healing?

Men in the Making Ambrose Shepherd

Here they lived, and here they died, giving up every earthly comfort and attraction that they might set gospel truth before those whose infected and repulsive bodies made them objects of terror and avoidance to all but those self-renouncing followers of their

Amos Huntingdon T.P. Wilson

Charles Kingsley (1819-1875) spent most of his life, by his own self-renouncing choice, as curate and rector of the little Hampshire parish of Eversley, though for some years he also held the professorship of history at Cambridge.

A History of English Literature Robert Huntington Fletcher

A six months 'residence with the religious and self-renouncing minister could not be without its effect on the character and disposition of the disciple, newly released from sin and care, and worldly calamity.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 327, January, 1843 Various

It came with the memories that no passion could long quench; the long past came back to her, and with it the fountains of self-renouncing pity and affection, of faithfulness and resolve.

V. The Last Conflict. Book VII—The Final Rescue 1917

But those other noble, blessed, self-renouncing men, who have given themselves over to God, are exalted above themselves; and hence, if they are overtaken in a fault, so soon as they are aware of it, they flee unto

The History and Life of the Reverend Doctor John Tauler with Twenty-Five of his Sermons 1820-1884 1905

A self-renouncing passion of any kind is not so common that we can afford to look on his king-worship with scorn.

Robert Browning Dowden, Edward 1904