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单词 self-abandonment
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Definition of self-abandonment in English:

self-abandonment

(also self-abandon)
noun
mass noun
  • The action of completely surrendering oneself to a desire or impulse.

    many people live in fear of self-abandonment
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Within the female sphere of responsibility, feeling, sympathy and love, their aspirations were not for emotional self-abandon but for emotional self-discipline.
    • What impulse led to this act of reckless self-abandonment?
    • How am I to find the naturalness, artlessness, utter self-abandonment of nature in the utmost artificiality of human works?
    • This is definitely a great help in preventing people at the bottom of society from giving up hope and acting with self-abandonment.
    • As far as prognoses of this sort go, in the last eighty years we intellectuals have become - quite independently of philosophical and political orientation - sceptical to the point of self-abandonment.
    • Their attitude seems a mixture of self-abandonment tinged with free-as-a-bird indulgence.

Derivatives

  • self-abandoned

  • adjective
 
 

Definition of self-abandonment in US English:

self-abandonment

(also self-abandon)
noun
  • The action of completely surrendering oneself to a desire or impulse.

    many people live in fear of self-abandonment
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Within the female sphere of responsibility, feeling, sympathy and love, their aspirations were not for emotional self-abandon but for emotional self-discipline.
    • How am I to find the naturalness, artlessness, utter self-abandonment of nature in the utmost artificiality of human works?
    • This is definitely a great help in preventing people at the bottom of society from giving up hope and acting with self-abandonment.
    • Their attitude seems a mixture of self-abandonment tinged with free-as-a-bird indulgence.
    • What impulse led to this act of reckless self-abandonment?
    • As far as prognoses of this sort go, in the last eighty years we intellectuals have become - quite independently of philosophical and political orientation - sceptical to the point of self-abandonment.
 
 
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