self-sacrifice
self-sacrifice noun: the giving up of one's own benefit for the good of others.
Noun
self-sacrifice (countable and uncountable, plural self-sacrifices)
- The giving up of one's own benefit for the good of others.
- Caring for a loved one with a chronic illness inevitably involves self-sacrifice.
- Whatever he was suffering, it was she who had caused it; he had vacated his house on account of her. She was not worth such self-sacrifice; she should not have accepted it of him.1886 May – 1887 April, Thomas Hardy, chapter VIII, in The Woodlanders […], volume III, London; New York, N.Y.: Macmillan and Co., published 1887, →OCLC, page 165
- Synonyms:
- self-abnegation, self-denial
- The act of making the ultimate sacrifice of giving up one's life for a cause.
- His brave self-sacrifice won him a posthumous medal, but I think he'd have preferred to receive it in person.
- [Scott’s Last Expedition] had been one of my own favourite books. It seemed curiously dated now, this heroism with only the ice for enemy, self-sacrifice that involved no deaths beyond one’s own.1951, Graham Greene, The End of the Affair, New York: Pocket Books, Book 5, Chapter 6, p. 215
self-sacrifice meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Malayalam and Kannada
self-sacrifice in Hindi
- giving up of one's own benefit
- आत्मत्याग ātmatyāg, आत्मनिवेदन ātmanivedan, आत्मबलिदान ātmablidān
self-sacrifice in Tamil
- தன்னலமறுப்பு
self-sacrifice in Malayalam
- selflessness, self-denial, unselfishness
- സ്വാർത്ഥത്യാഗം, ആത്മപരിത്യാഗം, ആത്മത്യാഗം, ആത്മനിരാസം, നിസ്വാർത്ഥത്യാഗം, ആത്മബലി
self-sacrifice in Kannada
- ತನ್ಮದಿಪುಕಳಿತ, ಸ್ವಾರ್ಥತ್ಯಾಗ, ಸ್ವಹಿತವರ್ಜನೆ
More languagesFewer languages
- self-sacrifice in Gujarati
- આત્મસમર્પણ ātmasmarpaṇ
Examples of self-sacrifice in a sentence
- Turians have a strong inclination towards public service and self-sacrifice, so they tend to be poor entrepreneurs.2008, BioWare, Mass Effect, Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →ISBN, →OCLC, PC, scene: Turians: Culture Codex entry:
- […] he turned his resourceful mind away from the serene life of a don on grass lawns in Cambridge to one of self-sacrifice and pure devotion in the thorny bushes of Africa.2012, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, chapter 15, in In the House of the Interpreter, New York: Anchor Books, published 2015, pages 43–44:
- However, something once happened on the railway there which showed the very best of mankind: heroism, duty, self-sacrifice and calm professionalism under terrible pressure.2022 January 12, Benedict le Vay, “The heroes of Soham...”, in RAIL, number 948, page 42:
Synonyms of self-sacrifice
Forms of self-sacrifice
| plural | self-sacrifices |
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Origin of self-sacrifice
From self- + sacrifice.
Questions about self-sacrifice
- What does self-sacrifice mean?
- Self-sacrifice means the giving up of one's own benefit for the good of others.
- What is self-sacrifice in Hindi?
- Self-sacrifice in Hindi is आत्मत्याग (ātmatyāg), आत्मनिवेदन (ātmanivedan), आत्मबलिदान (ātmablidān). See Self-sacrifice meaning in Hindi.
- How do you use self-sacrifice in a sentence?
- Turians have a strong inclination towards public service and self-sacrifice, so they tend to be poor entrepreneurs.
- What part of speech is self-sacrifice?
- Self-sacrifice is a noun.
- What is the plural of self-sacrifice?
- The plural of self-sacrifice is self-sacrifices.
Words near self-sacrifice in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: self-sacrifice (page history and authors); self-sacrifice (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); self-sacrifice (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); self-sacrifice (Kannada Wiktionary) (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.
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