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self-sacrificingly en · ADV

Etymology

From self-sacrificing + -ly.

Meanings

1. In a self-sacrificing way.
   • Those who consecrate their lives self-sacrificingly to the service of humanity are regarded as the best of men. 1894, Leo Tolstoï [i.e., Leo Tolstoy], “Doctrine of Non-resistance to Evil by Force Must Inevitably be Accepted by Men of the Present Day”, in Constance Garnett, transl., The Kingdom of God is within You: or, Christianity Not as a Mystical Doctrine, but as a New Life-conception. […], London: Walter Scott, […], →OCLC, page 199:
   • At this period, too, he liked to insist more strongly than ever on the altruistic, the self-sacrificingly patriotic character of his whole career. 1936, Aldous Huxley, “B. R. Haydon”, in The Olive Tree and Other Essays, London: Chatto & Windus, published 1947:
   • Mr. Harrison was smoking on his veranda. His wife had self-sacrificingly told him that he might smoke in the house if he took care to sit by an open window. 1909 September, L[ucy] M[aud] Montgomery, “A Wedding at the Stone House”, in Anne of Avonlea, Boston, Mass.: L[ouis] C[oues] Page & Company, →OCLC, pages 357–358:

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