Self-sacrifice meaning

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Self-sacrifice is giving up something you want or something you desire for the greater good or to help others.

An example of self-sacrifice is when you go without your morning latte so you can donate that amount of money to charity instead.

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Sacrifice of one's personal interests or well-being for the sake of others or for a cause.
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Sacrifice of oneself or one's own interests for the benefit, or the supposed benefit, of others.
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The giving up of one's own benefit, especially giving up one's life, for the good of others.

His brave self-sacrifice won him a posthumous medal, but I think he'd have preferred to receive it in person.

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Origin of self-sacrifice

Self-sacrifice Sentence Examples

  • It is reasonable with her in high school and you in college, this kind of self-sacrifice would be too much to expect.

  • Our family has a long tradition of self-sacrifice and charity.

  • It is thus that the before-mentioned self-sacrifice of the moral hero is conceived by Mill to be possible and actual.

  • At the end of the Lord of the Rings, the Hobbit characters are highly regarded by the other races for their courageous self-sacrifice.

  • Corinth, Sicyon and Megara, with similar political compromises, mark the limits of Dorian conquest; a Dorian invasion of Attica (c. 1066 B.C.) was checked by the self-sacrifice of King Codrus: "Either Athens must perish or her king."

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