self-sacrificingly

self-sacrificing +‎ -ly

self-sacrificingly (comparative more self-sacrificingly, superlative most self-sacrificingly)

1. In a self-sacrificing way.
   • 1894, Constance Garnett (translator), The Kingdom of God Is Within You by Leo Tolstoy, New York: Cassell, Chapter 8, p. 199,

     Those who consecrate their lives self-sacrificingly to the service of humanity are regarded as the best of men.

   • 1909, Lucy Maud Montgomery, Anne of Avonlea, London: Pitman, Chapter 30, p. 357,

     Mr. Harrison was smoking on his veranda. His wife had self-sacrificingly told that he might smoke in the house if he took care to sit by an open window.

   • 1936, Aldous Huxley, “B. R. Haydon” in The Olive Tree and Other Essays, London: Chatto & Windus, 1947,

     At this period, too, he liked to insist more strongly than ever on the altruistic, the self-sacrificingly patriotic character of his whole career.