self-renouncedadj.
/ˌsɛlfrᵻˈnaʊnst/, U.S. /ˌsɛlfrəˈnaʊnst/ Practising or characterized by self-renunciation.
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self-denying1630
self-renouncing1641
self-denied1642
self-annihilated1677
self-renounced1756
self-abnegating1840
self-abnegatory1846
self-renunciatory1850
1756 E. Perronet Mitre iii. lix. 152 On the whole, we should infer, However self-renounc'd his Air, ‘That Mitio lov'd himself.’
1838 E. B. Barrett Seraphim & Other Poems 259 I knelt down..Too self-renounced for fears.
1893 Burlington (Iowa) Hawk-eye 23 Mar. 3/4 To be self-renounced means that the ego is obliterated.
1909 19th Cent. & After Oct. 637 A Jesuit novice would try and make himself obedient and self-renounced.
1995 Calif. Hist. 74 320/1 Whether figured as the self-renounced female, la madre abnegada (the suffering mother)..or in portraits of female treachery..these views of women..are invariably sublimated into symbolic icons.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, January 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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