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self-sacrificers

self-sacrificers is the plural of self-sacrificer.

Meaning of self-sacrificer

Noun

self-sacrificer (plural self-sacrificers)

  1. A person who offers himself or herself as a sacrifice (as a religious act, for example).
    • […] they even willingly forfeit all the rest, and turn as it were Martyrs and Self-sacrificers to but so faint a Shadow or scant Resemblance of the first uncreated Perfection […]1668, Henry More, Divine Dialogues, London: James Flesher, Dialogue 3, page 467
  2. A person who is self-sacrificing, who sacrifices their own benefit for the good of another or others.
    • Northern clergymen in Florida, Scotch ministers in the North, and bishops with dioceses each as large as all England; men devoted to religion, charity, and learning—self-sacrificers, fearless, incorruptible […]1856, Amelia M. Murray, Letters from the United States, Cuba and Canada, New York: Putnam, Letter 23, pp. 281-282

Questions about self-sacrificers

What is self-sacrificers the plural of?
Self-sacrificers is the plural of self-sacrificer.

Words near self-sacrificers in the dictionary

  1. self-sabotaged
  2. self-sabotages
  3. self-sabotaging
  4. self-sacrifice
  5. self-sacrificer
  6. self-sacrificers
  7. self-sacrifices
  8. self-sacrificing
  9. self-sacrificingly
  10. self-same
  11. self-sames

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