self-sacrifice
Meaning
- noun The giving up of one's own benefit for the good of others.
Caring for a loved one with a chronic illness inevitably involves self-sacrifice.
- noun The act of making the ultimate sacrifice of giving up one's life for a cause.
His brave self-sacrifice won him a posthumous medal, but I think he'd have preferred to receive it in person.
Similar words
selflessness self-denial offering dedication devotion sacrifice culling cull slaughtering slaughter
Word family
self-sacrifices
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