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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



... improbable, if New Orleans fell, that the Louisiana's engines could be made efficient and she herself anything but a movable battery, the refusal to make the desired effort looks like caring for a part, at the sacrifice of the whole, of the defence. On the last day Mitchell had repeated warnings that the attack would soon come off, and was again asked to take a position to enfilade the schooners, so that the cannoneers ...
— The Gulf and Inland Waters - The Navy in the Civil War. Volume 3. • A. T. Mahan
... recognised. Today the rich people who in past ages donated their wealth for the building of a cathedral, construct vast laboratories where silent men do battle upon the hidden enemies of mankind and often sacrifice their lives that coming generations may enjoy greater happiness ...
— The Story of Mankind • Hendrik van Loon
... secret of every soul; and this Don Juan defines as its chemic secret, the law of its affinities, the law of its actions and reactions. Where one, he says, lights force, another draws forth pity; where one finds food for self-indulgence, another acquires strength for self-sacrifice. One blows life's ashes into rose-coloured flame, another into less heavenly hues. Love will have reached its height when the secret of each soul has become the knowledge of all; and the many-coloured rays of individual experience ...
— A Handbook to the Works of Browning (6th ed.) • Mrs. Sutherland Orr
... all but (I take it) fifteen pages, is now in your hands - possibly only about eleven pp. It is hard to say. But there it is, and you can do your best with it. Personally, I believe I would in this case make even a sacrifice to get Gordon Browne and copious illustration. I guess in ten days I shall have finished with it; then I go next to D. BALFOUR, and get the proofs ready: a nasty job for me, as you know. And then? Well, perhaps I'll take a go at the family ...
— Vailima Letters • Robert Louis Stevenson
... when I brought conviction home to the wavering mind of a man of the most splendid fortune, influence and popularity, and induced him to disappoint the disloyal and praise my acts. Now if I had been forced to sacrifice consistency in this transaction, I should not have thought anything worth that price; but the fact is that I have so worked the whole business, that I did not seem to be less consistent from my complacency to him, but that he appeared to gain in character by his approbation of ...
— The Letters of Cicero, Volume 1 - The Whole Extant Correspodence in Chronological Order • Marcus Tullius Cicero


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