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SELF-DEVOTION

Definition: SELF-DEVOTION

SELF-DEVOTION

Noun

1. The act of devoting one's self, or the state of being self-devoted; willingness to sacrifice one's own advantage or happiness for the sake of others; self-sacrifice.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "SELF-DEVOTION" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1615. (references)

Crosswords: SELF-DEVOTION

English words defined with "SELF-DEVOTION": Self-devotement. (references)

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Modern Translations: SELF-DEVOTION

Language Translations for "SELF-DEVOTION"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

vetësakrifikim (self abnegation, self denial, self-immolation), vetëmohim (dedication, self abnegation, self denial, self-renunciation). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

себеотрицание (abnegation, renunciation, self abnegation, self denial, self sacrifice, self-renunciation), преданост (allegiance, devotion, fidelity, good faith, loyalty). (various references)

   

Chinese 

  

自已献身 (Self-devoted). (various references)

   

Czech

  

sebezasvìcení. (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

önfeláldozás (devotion, self sacrifice, self-sacrifice). (various references)

   

Korean 

  

각자 헌 (Self-devoted). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

elf-devotionsay

   

Portuguese

  

sacrifício de si mesmo (self abnegation, self sacrifice, self-immolation), renúncia (abjuration, cession, departure, disclaimer, disclose, divestment, quitclaim, recession, relinquishment, renounce, renouncement, renunciation, resignation, self abnegation, surrender, waiver). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

самопожертвование (self abnegation, self denial, self sacrifice, self-immolation, self-renunciation, self-sacrifice), преданность (devotion, loyalty). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

samopredanost. (various references)

   

Swedish

  

självuppoffring (self denial, self sacrifice, self-immolation). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

fedakârlık (abnegation, devotion, sacrifice, self abnegation, self sacrifice, self-abandonment, unselfishness), özveri (devotion, sacrifice, self abnegation, self denial, self sacrifice, unselfishness). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Rhyming with "SELF-DEVOTION"

Words rhyming with "SELF-DEVOTION" (pronounced 'Self`-de*vo"tion'): Aration, Argumentation, Argutation, Botheration, Flusteration, Junction, Paction, Pagination, Palification, Palliation, Palpation, Palpitation, Pandiculation, Panelation, Panification, Paralyzation, Parentation, Participation, Particularization, Parturition, Pasteurization, Patefaction, Patrocination, Patronization, Pauperization, Pectination, Peculation, Pediculation, Peragration, Perambulation, Perception, Percolation, Perdition, Peregrination, Peremption, Pererration, Perflation, Perforation, Periclitation, Perlustration, Permeation, Permistion, Pernoctation, Peroration, Peroxidation, Perpetration, Perpetuation, Perpotation, Perquisition, Perscrutation. (additional references)

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Anagrams: SELF-DEVOTION

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "d-e-e-f-i-l-n-o-o-s-t-v"

-2 letters: fieldstone.

-3 letters: deletions, devotions, festooned, foveolets, lodestone, novelised, novelties, sevenfold.

-4 letters: deletion, denotive, devotion, eidolons, enlisted, entoiled, feedlots, felonies, felstone, foveoles, foveolet, infested, invested, lesioned, listened, looniest, loosened, nosedive, novelise, novelist, oilstone, olefines, sniveled, softened, solenoid, tenfolds, tinseled, veinlets, violones.

-5 letters: defiles, defines, denotes, dentils, destine, deveins, devotes, doolees, doolies, eftsoon, eidolon, elevons, eloined.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: SELF-DEVOTION


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

53 45 4C 46 2D 44 45 56 4F 54 49 4F 4E

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010011 01000101 01001100 01000110 00101101 01000100 01000101 01010110 01001111 01010100 01001001 01001111 01001110

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#83 &#69 &#76 &#70 &#45 &#68 &#69 &#86 &#79 &#84 &#73 &#79 &#78

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0053 0045 004C 0046 002D 0044 0045 0056 004F 0054 0049 004F 004E

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

53394640153839564954434948

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Translations: Modern
4. Rhymes
5. Anagrams
6. Orthography
7. Bibliography


  

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