unselfishness
IPA: ʌnsˈɛɫfɪʃnʌs
noun
- The state of being unselfish.
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Examples of "unselfishness" in Sentences
- His "unselfishness," his "sweetness," of which these good men make so much, were only one aspect of the Philosophy of his whole life.
- That kind of unselfishness has allowed coach Tom Pecora to fashion an offense that does not allow defenses to simply concentrate on Jenkins.
- As employed everywhere outside of this particular theoretical controversy, the term "unselfishness" refers to the kind of aims and objects which habitually interest a man.
- Besides her unselfishness, which is to me the highest as it is the rarest of virtues, hers is a sweet and noble character, and she is one of the gentlest souls that I have ever known.
- But the law of unselfishness, which is the very essence of a true Christian life, was already beginning to work unconsciously in this girl's heart, and it made her turn now and say to
- Those, indeed, who came often to her house were accustomed to speak warmly of her "unselfishness" -- by which they meant the easy patience with which she could listen, smile, and flatter.
- She rates highly certain moral attractions, such as unselfishness and chivalry, but perhaps she attaches far more value to intellectual attractions than the man does in her case, doubtless because they are more distinctively masculine.
- Near by him sat his other half, the blessed woman whom he had led from the neighboring county to grace his home and bless his life with that more than talismanic power which God has given to women in the bestowment of that far-reaching unselfishness which is constantly suggesting the Virgin's Son, and which is at once the source and secret of her strength and influence.
- Equally characteristic of Julie's moral courage and unselfishness is the incident of how Madam Liberality suffered the doctor's assistant to extract the tooth fang whch had been accidentally left in her jaw, because her mother's "fixed scale of reward was sixpence for a tooth without fangs, and a shilling for one with them," and she wanted the larger sum to spend on Christmas-tree presents.
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