self-sacrificingly
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
31
Scrabble Score
17
Letters
6
Syllables
11
Unique Chars
Meaning
adv
In a self-sacrificing way.
Example Sentences
- "Those who consecrate their lives self-sacrificingly to the service of humanity are regarded as the best of men."
- "Mr. Harrison was smoking on his veranda. His wife had self-sacrificingly told him that he might smoke in the house if he took care to sit by an open window."
- "At this period, too, he liked to insist more strongly than ever on the altruistic, the self-sacrificingly patriotic character of his whole career."
Etymology
From self-sacrificing + -ly.
Inflected Forms
more self-sacrificingly (comparative)
most self-sacrificingly (superlative)