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"en:Love"
],
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"3": "sacrifice"
},
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"etymology_text": "From self- + sacrifice.",
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{
"word": "self-sacrificer"
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{
"word": "self-sacrificing"
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"word": "self-sacrificingly"
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"Quotation templates to be cleaned"
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{
"text": "Caring for a loved one with a chronic illness inevitably involves self-sacrifice.",
"type": "example"
},
{
"ref": "1886 May – 1887 April, Thomas Hardy, chapter VIII, in The Woodlanders […], volume III, London; New York, N.Y.: Macmillan and Co., published 1887, →OCLC, page 165:",
"text": "Whatever he was suffering, it was she who had caused it; he had vacated his house on account of her. She was not worth such self-sacrifice; she should not have accepted it of him.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1918, Willa Cather, My Ántonia, Boston: Houghton Mifflin, Book 3, Chapter 1, p. 292:",
"text": "Some of those boys came straight from the cornfields with only a summer’s wages in their pockets, hung on through the four years, shabby and underfed, and completed the course by really heroic self-sacrifice.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2008, BioWare, Mass Effect, Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →ISBN, →OCLC, PC, scene: Turians: Culture Codex entry:",
"text": "Turians have a strong inclination towards public service and self-sacrifice, so they tend to be poor entrepreneurs.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2012, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, chapter 15, in In the House of the Interpreter, New York: Anchor Books, published 2015, pages 43–44:",
"text": "[…] he turned his resourceful mind away from the serene life of a don on grass lawns in Cambridge to one of self-sacrifice and pure devotion in the thorny bushes of Africa.",
"type": "quote"
}
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"The giving up of one's own benefit for the good of others."
],
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{
"word": "self-abnegation"
},
{
"word": "self-denial"
}
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"tags": [
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"Quotation templates to be cleaned"
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{
"text": "His brave self-sacrifice won him a posthumous medal, but I think he'd have preferred to receive it in person.",
"type": "example"
},
{
"ref": "1951, Graham Greene, The End of the Affair, New York: Pocket Books, Book 5, Chapter 6, p. 215:",
"text": "[Scott’s Last Expedition] had been one of my own favourite books. It seemed curiously dated now, this heroism with only the ice for enemy, self-sacrifice that involved no deaths beyond one’s own.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2022 January 12, Benedict le Vay, “The heroes of Soham...”, in RAIL, number 948, page 42:",
"text": "However, something once happened on the railway there which showed the very best of mankind: heroism, duty, self-sacrifice and calm professionalism under terrible pressure. It is a story which gives us far, far better reasons for remembering this attractive little town, which without these heroes would have been blown to smithereens in a gigantic explosion. (Two railwaymen lost their lives in 1944 when a wagon in an ammunition train caught fire and blew up, an even worse disaster was averted however.)",
"type": "quote"
}
],
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"The act of making the ultimate sacrifice of giving up one's life for a cause."
],
"links": [
[
"ultimate sacrifice",
"ultimate sacrifice"
]
],
"tags": [
"countable",
"uncountable"
]
}
],
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"translations": [
{
"code": "az",
"lang": "Azerbaijani",
"sense": "giving up of one's own benefit",
"word": "fədakarlıq"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "samožertva",
"sense": "giving up of one's own benefit",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "саможертва"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "giving up of one's own benefit",
"word": "自我犧牲"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "zìwǒxīshēng",
"sense": "giving up of one's own benefit",
"word": "自我牺牲"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "giving up of one's own benefit",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "sebeobětování"
},
{
"code": "da",
"lang": "Danish",
"sense": "giving up of one's own benefit",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
],
"word": "selvopofrelse"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "giving up of one's own benefit",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "zelfopoffering"
},
{
"code": "eo",
"lang": "Esperanto",
"sense": "giving up of one's own benefit",
"word": "memofero"
},
{
"code": "et",
"lang": "Estonian",
"sense": "giving up of one's own benefit",
"word": "eneseohverdus"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "giving up of one's own benefit",
"word": "uhrautuminen"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "giving up of one's own benefit",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "auto-sacrifice"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "giving up of one's own benefit",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "sacrifice de soi"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "giving up of one's own benefit",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Selbstaufopferung"
},
{
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "aftothysía",
"sense": "giving up of one's own benefit",
"tags": [
"feminine",
"noun"
],
"word": "αυτοθυσία"
},
{
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"note": "αυτοθυσιάζομαι (aftothysiázomai, literally “to self-sacrifice”)",
"sense": "giving up of one's own benefit",
"tags": [
"verb"
]
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "giving up of one's own benefit",
"word": "önfeláldozás"
},
{
"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "giving up of one's own benefit",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "féiníobairt"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "giving up of one's own benefit",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "autosacrificio"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "giving up of one's own benefit",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "abnegazione"
},
{
"alt": "じこぎせい",
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "jikogisei",
"sense": "giving up of one's own benefit",
"word": "自己犠牲"
},
{
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "samopožrtvúvanje",
"sense": "giving up of one's own benefit",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "самопожртву́вање"
},
{
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "samoprégor",
"sense": "giving up of one's own benefit",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "самопре́гор"
},
{
"code": "nb",
"lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
"sense": "giving up of one's own benefit",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "selvoppofrelse"
},
{
"code": "nn",
"lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
"sense": "giving up of one's own benefit",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "sjølvoppofring"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "giving up of one's own benefit",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "samopoświęcenie"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "giving up of one's own benefit",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "autossacrifício"
},
{
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "giving up of one's own benefit",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "sacrificiu de sine"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "samopožértvovanije",
"sense": "giving up of one's own benefit",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "самопоже́ртвование"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "giving up of one's own benefit",
"tags": [
"Cyrillic",
"neuter"
],
"word": "самоодрицање"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "giving up of one's own benefit",
"tags": [
"Cyrillic",
"neuter"
],
"word": "саможр̀твова̄ње"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "giving up of one's own benefit",
"tags": [
"Cyrillic",
"masculine"
],
"word": "самопрегор"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "giving up of one's own benefit",
"tags": [
"Roman",
"neuter"
],
"word": "samoodricanje"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "giving up of one's own benefit",
"tags": [
"Roman",
"neuter"
],
"word": "samožr̀tvovānje"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "giving up of one's own benefit",
"tags": [
"Roman",
"masculine"
],
"word": "samopregor"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "giving up of one's own benefit",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "autosacrificio"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "giving up of one's own benefit",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "abnegación"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "giving up of one's own benefit",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
],
"word": "självuppoffring"
},
{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "giving up of one's own benefit",
"word": "fedakârlık"
},
{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "giving up of one's own benefit",
"word": "özveri"
},
{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "samopožértva",
"sense": "giving up of one's own benefit",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "самопоже́ртва"
}
],
"word": "self-sacrifice"
}
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