deny oneself

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English

Verb

deny oneself (third-person singular simple present denies oneself, present participle denying oneself, simple past and past participle denied oneself)

  1. To decline the gratification of appetites or desires; to practise self-denial.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “deny oneself”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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