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A person who offers himself or herself as a sacrifice (as a religious act, for example)..
1728, attributed to Daniel Defoe, The Memoirs of an English Officer, London: E. Symon, p. 186, After these Street-Exercises, these ostentatious Castigations are over, these Self-sacrificers repair to the great Church, the bloodier the better; there they throw themselves, in a Condition too vile for the Eye of a Female, before the Image of the Virgin Mary […]
[…] they even willingly forfeit all the rest, and turn as it were Martyrs and Self-sacrificers to but so faint a Shadow or scant Resemblance of the first uncreated Perfection […]
1856, Amelia M. Murray, Letters from the United States, Cuba and Canada, New York: Putnam, Letter 23, pp. 281-282, Northern clergymen in Florida, Scotch ministers in the North, and bishops with dioceses each as large as all England; men devoted to religion, charity, and learning—self-sacrificers, fearless, incorruptible […]
It was a state of joy which only the self-sacrificer knows.
[…] I think self-sacrificers tend to burn out early; they haven’t taken care of themselves.
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Self-sacrificer means A person who offers himself or herself as a sacrifice (as a religious act, for example)..
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1728, attributed to Daniel Defoe, The Memoirs of an English Officer, London: E. Symon, p. 186, After these Street-Exercises, these ostentatious Castigations are over, these Self-sacrificers repair to the great Church, the bloodier the better; there they throw themselves, in a Condition too vile for the Eye of a Female, before the Image of the Virgin Mary […]
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