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self-abnegationnoun voluntary restraint in the satisfaction of one's appetiteseven after acquiring great wealth, he continued to practice a kind of puritanical self-abnegation abstinence, continence, self-denial, sobriety, temperance control, forbearance, restraintdiscipline, self-command, self-control, self-discipline, self-masteryasceticism, austerity self-indulgence gluttony, greed, rapaciousness, rapacity, voraciousness, voracityhedonism, sensuality, sybaritism in 1647 |