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Definition of Self-forgetful
1. Adjective. Showing lack of self-interest.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Self-forgetful
Literary usage of Self-forgetful
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Trend of the Races by George Edmund Haynes (1922)
"self-forgetful loyalty of the Negro. The self-forgetful loyalty to the interests
and cause of others even where it conflicts with self-interest has been ..."
2. Music (1897)
"THE self-forgetful RICHARD WAGNER. Emile Ollivier, the French statesman and
Academician, who married one of Liszt's daughters, pictures Wagner as follows in ..."
3. The Expositor edited by Samuel Cox, Sir W Robertson Nicoll, James Moffatt (1895)
"... in its loftiest ambition as well as its minutest calculation, identical with
the unsparing and self-forgetful service of man. JOHN WATSON. ..."
4. The Philosophy of School Management by Arnold Tompkins (1895)
"become so through intense sympathy with the unfolding life of others, —a sympathy
which gives no peace except in the self-forgetful labor of nurturing the ..."
5. Mutterings and Musings of an Invalid by Frederic Townsend (1851)
"... and submissive, and forgiving, and self- forgetful and mindful of others—imitate
this heavenly bounty—spare not of thy counsel to the ignorant, ..."
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