abnegation

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The hermits’ fierce self-abnegation, their holy self-emptying seemed to her thrilling.
隐士们严苛的自我克制和神圣的自我倾空都令她震撼。（self-emptying虽然在很多地方都译成自我倾空，但是我觉得这个说法很不清晰，其实“虚己”很好，奈何另有一词占了这两个字。
Only spontaneous love flowing with sincere generosity and self-abnegation can fertilize the soul of others.
唯有自发爱，富有真挚的宽容与自我克制的爱才能够丰富他人的灵魂。
It’s hard to ignore the fact that all these tools are at root about imposing limits and narrowing options—in other words, about a voluntary abnegation of freedom.
我们很难忽视这样一个事实：所有这些手段从根本上都是关于强加限制和减少选择，关于自愿地放弃自由。

The rest is bravado, boasting, good and bad times with many women and hangers-on, enormous earnings (most of them blown), and wrenching self-criticism and self-abnegation.
NEWYORKER: Tyson
"A Tale of Music" draws on this history to tell a disturbing parable about an artist's willing self-abnegation in the service of the Great Leader.
NPR: 'A Tale of Music': From 'Literature from the Axis of Evil'
Such abnegation has become a popular tactic in these anti-political times.
ECONOMIST: The planning takeover