self-abnegation

n.

（为信仰或为他人而）自欺欺人克制，自我牺牲，克己；

1. Self-development is a higher duty than self - sacrifice.
   自我发展是比自我牺牲还崇高的职责。
2. Eyam's selfless villagers, with their strong Christian convictions, had shown immense personal courage and self sacrifice.
   伊玛村庄无私的村民，带著对基督的坚定信念，展示了人类巨大的勇气和自我牺牲精神。

Self-abnegation
Self-Interest, Self-Abnegation and Self-Esteem: Towards a New Moral Economy of Non-Directed Kidney Donation
Sour Grapes, Self-Abnegation and Character Building
Heroism, self-abnegation and the liberal organization
Death and A New Life : Paul’s Gospel and the Demand of Self-Abnegation
Loïe Fuller’s Serpentines and Poetics of Self-Abnegation in the Era of Electrotechnics
Reconceiving self-abnegation: Female vulnerability as embodied (un)sovereignty
Eros and self-government: Petrarchism and protestant self-abnegation in William Fowler's tarantula of love
The Other Literacy Myth: Power and Self-Abnegation in Nineteenth-Century Evangelical Literacy Narratives
Christina Rossetti's Maude : Self-Abnegation and Self-Expression of a Victorian Poet