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Quotation dates: 1680
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Self-deniedly, adv. [Self-denyed ppl. adj.] In a self-denying or unselfish manner, self-denyingly. — c1680 W. Row Blair 379.
Mr. Blair … did seriously and self-deniedly bestir himself to get another landward parish erected
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