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self-surrender

[ self-suh-ren-der, self- ]

noun

  1. the surrender or yielding up of oneself, one's will, affections, etc., as to another person, an influence, or a cause.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of self-surrender1

First recorded in 1695–1705
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Example Sentences

The two experiences that keep us together are love and work, and the essence of both experiences is self-surrender.

Looking at him, she felt rushing through her the passionate delight that self-surrender to such a man would be.

It was self-surrender and therefore, though the message he was to bear was a hard message, it was sweet to him.

It is not often we meet with men capable of an entire self-surrender; these men were.

His was a life of perfect self-surrender, from first to last.

The memory of her serene self-possession made her self-surrender of the night all the more amazing to him.

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