Translation for "self-denying" to spanish
Self-denying
adjective
Translation examples
adjective
Trilling demanded a self-denying purity;
Trilling exigía una pureza abnegada y sacrificial;
Though not exactly self-denying, he’s clearly more comfortable talking and thinking about subjects other than himself.
Si bien no es un hombre precisamente abnegado, salta a la vista que le resulta más cómodo hablar y pensar sobre temas que no sean él mismo.
They told of a people, self-denying, cruel, exploitative, madly militaristic, addicted to savage conquests, grinding their heels into the necks of every people within reach of their armies.
Hablaban de un pueblo abnegado, cruel, explotador, militarista hasta la locura, adicto a las conquistas salvajes, que pisaba el cuello de todo aquel que estuviera cerca de sus ejércitos.
Silence—broken by the piping wheeze of a couple of laughs, Julian’s and Gloria’s being suppressed, contained in the lower lobes of the lungs only by the most intense and self-denying of pressures.
Silencio… interrumpido por el jadeo agudo de un par de risotadas, las de Julián y Gloria al quedar contenidas en los lóbulos inferiores de los pulmones gracias a la más intensa y abnegada de las presiones.
In his sorrow for his offence against her, he had become a man of strict religious habits, self-denying as a lenten saint, though formerly he had been a free and joyous liver.
Arrepentido por su ofensa, se había convertido en un hombre de estrictas costumbres religiosas, abnegado como el más austero de los santos, después de haber sido un vividor dichoso y pródigo.
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