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Sacrifice   /sˈækrəfˌaɪs/   Listen
Sacrifice

noun
1.
The act of losing or surrendering something as a penalty for a mistake or fault or failure to perform etc..  Synonyms: forfeit, forfeiture.
2.
Personnel that are sacrificed (e.g., surrendered or lost in order to gain an objective).
3.
A loss entailed by giving up or selling something at less than its value.
4.
The act of killing (an animal or person) in order to propitiate a deity.  Synonym: ritual killing.
5.
(baseball) an out that advances the base runners.
verb
(past & past part. sacrificed; pres. part. sacrificing)
1.
Endure the loss of.  Synonym: give.  "I gave two sons to the war"
2.
Kill or destroy.  "The general had to sacrifice several soldiers to save the regiment"
3.
Sell at a loss.
4.
Make a sacrifice of; in religious rituals.



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"Sacrifice" Quotes from Famous Books



... to do him anything but good," he said diplomatically, trying to convince himself that he was not damaging the reputation for perfect candour which he hoped that he enjoyed. "It's not a pleasant task, but there are circumstances in which one has to sacrifice one's ...
— A Comedy of Masks - A Novel • Ernest Dowson and Arthur Moore
... the table. That was because she herself had had first choice in the matter of bed and dressing table, and having seized upon the most desirable from her point of view, felt that she owed the other girl some reparation. Because they had been Lloyd's she wanted them so strongly that she was ready to sacrifice everything else in the room for them, or even fight for their ...
— The Little Colonel's Chum: Mary Ware • Annie Fellows Johnston
... head of the moderate men. Though not convinced of the strict legality of the meeting, he thought a reform in parliament so important and desirable an object, that to the probability or chance of obtaining this great advantage it was the wisdom of a true patriot to sacrifice punctilio, and to hazard all, but, what he was too wise and good to endanger, the peace of the country. Lord Charlemont accepted the office of president, specially with the hope that he and his friends might be able to influence the convention in favour of proceedings at once temperate ...
— Richard Lovell Edgeworth - A Selection From His Memoir • Richard Lovell Edgeworth
... his war-cap, the trophy of victory over the bears, and gone home bare-headed—nay, bare-headed the livelong summer—could he by that sacrifice have secured the scalp of the Wyandot giant, so greatly did he covet this additional trophy of his victory over a warrior so renowned. But the body was nowhere to be found, all traces of it vanishing at the brink of the river-bank. The party crossed the stream ...
— Burl • Morrison Heady
... receive more benefit from the life of a priest entirely dedicated to this work of Missions, than if it were given to a specific parish or diocese. Even were a parish or small country mission to be deprived for the time being of a resident pastor, should not that sacrifice be made, generously and cheerfully, for the sake of a greater cause. It is assuredly a short-sighted policy to sacrifice hundreds of thousands of souls for the care of a few, to prefer the welfare of a parish to that of the Church at large. ...
— Catholic Problems in Western Canada • George Thomas Daly


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