self-deˈnied, ppl. a.
[self- 2.]
Given to, or characterized by, self-denial; self-denying.
| 1693 Apol. Clergy Scot. 9 They could not be so self-denyed as to be willingly deprived of the honour. a 1715 Burnet Own Time (1766) I. 270 He..was a mortified and self-denied man, that delighted in nothing so much as in the doing good. 1818 Scott Hrt. Midl. xxxiii, The undaunted and self-denied manner in which he sacrificed himself. 1850 J. Brown Disc. & Sayings of our Lord (1852) II. xvi. 206 Are we following him in self-denied service? |
Hence self-deˈniedly adv.
| 1676 Row Contn. Blair's Autobiogr. xii. (1848) 379 Mr. Blair did seriously and self-deniedly bestir himself. |