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Example sentences for: self-abnegation

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His followers were to achieve transcendence through self-abnegation.
Clearly, Crowley wasn't going to do even a Ruth Shalit (i.e., admit plagiarism but say it was inadvertent and trivial), which Chatterbox previously thought was the minimal amount of self-abnegation such a situation demanded.
Sacrificing the crucial South Carolina primary to make another such courageous point would have been an act of self-abnegation on par with his refusal to be released from prison camp in Vietnam.