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Recent Examples of self-denying The thriving wineries of modern-day Australia would no doubt astonish those Lutheran pioneers, not to mention the self-denying John Muir — although they surely would be fascinated by how botany has been modernized and commercialized. Tony Perrottet, Travel + Leisure, 25 June 2024
Recent Examples of Synonyms for self-denying
Adjective
  • Quarantine by Jim Crace This 1997 novel follows Jesus during his 40-day ascetic retreat to a desert cave.
    Mia Barzilay Freund, Vogue, 7 July 2025
  • Martin lived an ascetic and solitary life, and often denounced overly cerebral art.
    Melissa Febos, The Atlantic, 9 June 2025
Adjective
  • Some have evolved exceedingly specific diets—diets that would put even the most abstemious human to shame.
    Scott Travers, Forbes, 12 Mar. 2025
  • The solution offered up by some: the sort of abstemious, low-fat, often vegetarian, diets that had been prescribed as lust-control regimens only decades earlier.
    Rachel Hope Cleves / Made by History, TIME, 14 Feb. 2025

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“Self-denying.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/self-denying. Accessed 21 Jul. 2025.

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