English-Portuguese translations for self-denial

• abnegação
  Todos os laços recíprocos de amor e desvelo, de solidariedade e abnegação, são suspeitos. Any mutual ties of love and care, of solidarity and self-denial are treated with suspicion.
  Conciliar tantas opiniões diferentes nesta assembleia não só exige mestria, mas também muita abnegação. To reconcile so many different opinions in this House requires not only considerable skill, but great self-denial also.

Definition of self-denial

• Action that sacrifices one's own benefit for the good of others

Related words

• self-destruction
• self-defence
• self-deprivation
• self-deception
• self-determination
• self-destructive
• self-destructing
• self-designation
• self-defense
• self-deprecating