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1
the act or practice of giving up or rejecting something once enjoyed or desired
- dieting is an endless exercise in self-denial
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voluntary restraint in the satisfaction of one's appetites
- self-indulgent even when she was poor, she wasn't about to practice self-denial after getting rich
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“Self-denial.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/self-denial. Accessed 23 Oct. 2021.
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The first known use of self-denial was in 1605
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