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Meaning of "self-renunciation" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF SELF-RENUNCIATION

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF SELF-RENUNCIATION

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Self-Renunciation is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES SELF-RENUNCIATION MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of self-renunciation in the English dictionary

The definition of self-renunciation in the dictionary is the renunciation of one's own rights, claims, interest, etc, esp in favour of those of others.


WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE SELF-RENUNCIATION

self-regarding
self-regulating
self-regulating organization
self-regulation
self-regulatory
self-reliance
self-reliant
self-reliantly
self-renewal
self-renewing
self-renunciatory
self-replicate
self-replicating
self-reproach
self-reproachful
self-reproachfully
self-respect
self-respectful
self-respecting
self-restraint

WORDS THAT END LIKE SELF-RENUNCIATION

accreditation
action
administration
animation
application
association
certification
citation
combination
communication
confirmation
conversation
corporation
creation
decoration
destination
documentation
duration
education
evaluation
excitation

Synonyms and antonyms of self-renunciation in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «self-renunciation» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF SELF-RENUNCIATION

Find out the translation of self-renunciation to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of self-renunciation from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «self-renunciation» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

自我放弃
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

autorrenuncia
570 millions of speakers

English

self-renunciation
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

आत्मत्याग
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

نبذ الذات
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

самоотречение
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

renúncia
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

স্ব-আত্মত্যাগ
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

le renoncement à soi
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Penolakan diri
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Selbstverleugnung
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

自己放棄
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

자기 포기
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Nyingkiri awake dhewe
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

tự từ bỏ
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

சுய துறத்தல்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

आत्मसंतुष्ट
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

kendini feda
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

auto- rinuncia
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

wyrzeczenie się siebie
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

самозречення
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

lepădare de sine
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

αυταπάρνηση
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

self- verloëning
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

självförsakelse
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

selv forsakelse
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of self-renunciation

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «SELF-RENUNCIATION»

The term «self-renunciation» is used very little and occupies the 164.097 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «SELF-RENUNCIATION» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about self-renunciation

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SELF-RENUNCIATION»

Discover the use of self-renunciation in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to self-renunciation and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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The Struggle of Hungarian Lutherans Under Communism
Self-renunciation for Kaldy is constituted of self-giving plus suffering, but it is distinct from other-regard, Thus Kaldy. under the rubric of self-renunciation. has elided self-giving into suffering and separated self-giving from other-regard, ...
Helmut David Baer, 2006
2
Why Psychology Needs Theology: A Radical-reformation Perspective
Christ's unique nature as human and divine may specify the mundane circumstances of humanity, indicate an impossible vision of divine perfection, or leave the assumptions of self-renunciation painfully ambiguous. The fact of Christ's ...
Alvin C. Dueck, Cameron Lee, 2005
3
On Dialogue
Being, as being with the other and as that which is recognized and reciprocated by the other, is established in an act of self-renunciation. As Bakhtin argues, "The world in which I, from my own unique place, renounce myself does not become ...
Dmitriĭ Vladimirovich Nikulin, 2006
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Renown Through Self Renunciation
THIS 20 PAGE ARTICLE WAS EXTRACTED FROM THE BOOK: Investment of Influence: A Study of Social Sympathy and Service, by Newell Dwight Hillis. To purchase the entire book, please order ISBN 0766102386.
Newell Dwight Hillis, 2010
5
God Alone Is the Truth and the Way: How to Survive the ...
2 According to Toynbee, man must walk the road between suicide through self- assertion (“me first”) and euthanasia through self-renunciation (“you first”). He describes this road as a razor edge. I know self-renunciation well. Most of the time, ...
Frederick Mahan, 2008
6
Bakhtin and Religion: A Feeling for Faith
But Jacobs insists that the self-renunciation of which Bakhtin (and St. Paul) speaks cannot be equated with the utter self-emptying, even self-annihilation, that an author like Simone Weil seems to advise. As the context of the passage from ...
Susan M. Felch, Paul J. Contino, 2001
7
The Apologetic Value of Human Holiness: Von Balthasar's ...
Indeed, an alternative way of linking personal holiness to the Church can be derived from von Balthasar's understanding of the term "die Entaufierung" ( ' self- renunciation ' ) . But first, a possible objection. Is not a focus on self-renunciation  ...
Victoria S. Harrison, 2000
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Other Selves: Philosophers on Friendship
Self-renunciation would eradicate this self- loving and self-willing by the "You shall" of the eternal. And self-renunciation, which presses in as a judge to try self- love, is therefore double-edged in that it cuts off both sides equally. It knows very  ...
Michael Pakaluk, 1991
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Covert Operations: The Medieval Uses of Secrecy
His nostalgia for that "other" Middle Ages that marks the difference modernity will make exists in unsettling conjunction with Foucault's own critique of this same period, when sexuality became the measure of the self's renunciation and of its ...
Karma Lochrie, 2012
10
Corporeal Words: Mikhail Bakhtin's Theology of Discourse
That this activity has shifted from being the self-actuated ones in "Toward a Philosophy of the Act" (which foregrounds Christ's self-renunciation and the metempsychosis of Pushkin's poetic persona to his lover) to being a dialogic one in ...
Alexandar Mihailovic, 1997

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «SELF-RENUNCIATION»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term self-renunciation is used in the context of the following news items.
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Ownership v. Gratitude
But if our very existence is gift, rejection of the gift involves self-renunciation. And this is just what we attempt to do when we claim ownership of our own persons, ... «First Things, Apr 15»
2
Focus on Asia Week: Kapoor Galleries: Realms of Existence
The whole narrative is revealed in one painting, showing, perhaps, a rejection of self-renunciation by Krishna as well as his liberating capacity – in the story his ... «Arte Fuse, Mar 15»
3
Home Cooking And The Left's Resentment of Effort
I enjoy making something for my family that they enjoy, and I can't imagine the self-renunciation of saying: to heck with it, it's too much bother, they can go eat fast ... «The Federalist, Sep 14»
4
Mizoguchi Films in a Museum of the Moving Image Series
... of grace and fortitude in the face of male aggression and ineffectualness, and it contains a gorgeous, unforgettable scene of self-renunciation: The princess, ... «New York Times, May 14»
5
Letter from Bangalore: Equality is god, and compassion is its prophet
... much more on our part than sitting on the couch and watching TV. A Buddhist monk's life of self-renunciation wouldn't seem to fit the spirit of our times either. «Acton Institute, Jan 14»
6
Longing for the Face of God - Navigating the Interior Life – Part III of IV
Thirst for self-renunciation, annihilation, detachment, and divine love. Hunger for the Eucharist and for Heaven. Graces of infused contemplative prayer are ... «National Catholic Register, Oct 13»
7
Penalizing hate speech
More consistent, but to a more tragic theory of values based on self-renunciation. Perry Constantine. This wasn't a loose assembly, this was the Zaitokukai. «The Japan Times, Oct 13»
8
McBride gets the better of Paxman: is there a lesson here?
Whether his self-renunciation is as totally sincere as he presented it is a matter between him and his God – but my goodness it looked genuine enough onscreen ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Sep 13»
9
Home, sweet home exhibition kicks off in Paris
... a housewife image used to be a personification of splendid stability and order rather than female self-renunciation. However, rapidly changing world leaves no ... «AzerNews, Apr 13»
10
Theater Review: Christopher Durang's Vanya and Sonia and Masha …
Thus Durang and his director, Nicholas Martin, introduce a conflict of styles to echo the conflict between self-renunciation and self-indulgence: between ... «Vulture, Mar 13»

REFERENCE
« EDUCALINGO. Self-Renunciation [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/self-renunciation>. Apr 2024 ».
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