English vocabulary examples in context: abnegation
Vocabulary in context: abnegation -- Example 1.
A saint who dwells in a paroxysm of abnegation is a dangerous neighbor; he might communicate to you, by contagion, an incurable poverty, an anchylosis of the joints, which are useful in advancement, and in short, more renunciation than you desire; and this infectious virtue is avoided.
Vocabulary in context: abnegation -- Example 2.
And, withal, a life of privation, isolation, abnegation, chastity, with never a diversion.
Vocabulary in context: abnegation -- Example 3.
It would be beautiful, no doubt, after the Bishop's holy words, after so many years of repentance and abnegation, in the midst of a penitence admirably begun, if this man had not flinched for an instant, even in the presence of so terrible a conjecture, but had continued to walk with the same step towards this yawning precipice, at the bottom of which lay heaven; that would have been beautiful; but it was not thus.
Vocabulary in context: abnegation -- Example 4.
It is the canonical subjection in the full force of its abnegation.
Vocabulary in context: abnegation -- Example 5.
The convent is supreme egoism having for its result supreme abnegation.
Vocabulary in context: abnegation -- Example 6.
Before his eyes he had the sublime summit of abnegation, the highest possible pitch of virtue; the innocence which pardons men their faults, and which expiates in their stead; servitude submitted to, torture accepted, punishment claimed by souls which have not sinned, for the sake of sparing it to souls which have fallen; the love of humanity swallowed up in the love of God, but even there preserving its distinct and mediatorial character; sweet and feeble beings possessing the misery of those who are punished and the smile of those who are recompensed.
Vocabulary in context: abnegation -- Example 7.
How he regretted his abnegation and his folly in having brought Cosette back into the world, poor hero of sacrifice, seized and hurled to the earth by his very self-devotion!
Vocabulary in context: abnegation -- Example 8.
Is there not in these excessive advertisements of self-abnegation and of honour a good deal of ostentation?
Vocabulary in context: abnegation -- Example 9.
The English have not understood and cannot understand the self-abnegation of our Emperor who wants nothing for himself, but only desires the good of mankind.
Vocabulary in context: abnegation -- Example 10.
She did not think of applying submission and self-abnegation to her own life, for she was accustomed to seek other joys, but she understood and loved in another those previously incomprehensible virtues.
