Word.ws English Dictionary

self-giving

self-giving noun: surrender.

Noun

self-giving (uncountable)

  1. Surrender.
  2. Self-sacrifice.

Adjective

self-giving (comparative more self-giving, superlative most self-giving)

  1. Performing or involving self-sacrifice.
    • What matters is that the persons involved "encourage and support growth in faith and self-giving love".1978 February 4, Philip Smith, quoting Presbyterian General Assembly, “Presbyterian Church Study Group Supports Ordination”, in Gay Community News, volume 6, number 30, page 3

Forms of self-giving

comparativemore self-giving
superlativemost self-giving

Origin of self-giving

From self- + giving.

Questions about self-giving

What does self-giving mean?
Self-giving means surrender.
What part of speech is self-giving?
Self-giving can be a noun or an adjective.

Words near self-giving in the dictionary

  1. self-fund
  2. self-funded
  3. self-funding
  4. self-funds
  5. self-generating
  6. self-giving
  7. self-glorious
  8. self-govern
  9. self-governance
  10. self-governed
  11. self-governing

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: self-giving (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “self-giving.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/self-giving. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.