SELF-SACRIFICE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does self-sacrifice mean? 

• SELF-SACRIFICE (noun)
  The noun SELF-SACRIFICE has 1 sense:

1. acting with less concern for yourself than for the success of the joint activity

  Familiarity information: SELF-SACRIFICE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SELF-SACRIFICE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Acting with less concern for yourself than for the success of the joint activity

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

self-sacrifice; selflessness

Hypernyms ("self-sacrifice" is a kind of...):

cooperation (joint operation or action)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "self-sacrifice"):

abnegation; denial; self-abnegation; self-denial; self-renunciation (renunciation of your own interests in favor of the interests of others)

 Context examples 

I believe that she is capable of heroic self-sacrifice and that anything dishonourable would be repugnant to her.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

For a moment my soul was elevated from its debasing and miserable fears to contemplate the divine ideas of liberty and self-sacrifice of which these sights were the monuments and the remembrancers.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

Thus, the pair of lovers could be jarred apart by misunderstood motives, by accident of fate, by jealous rivals, by irate parents, by crafty guardians, by scheming relatives, and so forth and so forth; they could be reunited by a brave deed of the man lover, by a similar deed of the woman lover, by change of heart in one lover or the other, by forced confession of crafty guardian, scheming relative, or jealous rival, by voluntary confession of same, by discovery of some unguessed secret, by lover storming girl's heart, by lover making long and noble self-sacrifice, and so on, endlessly.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)