Devoted+to+others

  • 1devoted to others — index philanthropic Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …

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  • 2Anna Walentynowicz — (b. August 13, 1929 in Równe) is a Polish free trade union activist. Her firing in August 1980 was the event that led to the strike in the Gdansk Shipyard that paralyzed the Baltic coast and led to the giant wave of strikes in Poland and… …

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  • 3altruistic — a. 1. Referring to altruism, marked by the theory of devotion to others. 2. Devoted to others, philanthropic, unselfish, friendly to man, attached to the common weal …

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  • 4philanthropic — I adjective accommodating, almsgiving, altruistic, beneficent, benevolent, benign, benignant, bighearted, bounteous, bountiful, brotherly, charitable, civic minded, considerate, devoted to others, eleemosynary, free, freehanded, generous, giving …

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  • 5selfless — devoted to others welfare or interest and not one s own, 1825, from SELF (Cf. self) + LESS (Cf. less). First attested in Coleridge …

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  • 6altruist — al·tru·ist || æltrʊɪst n. one unselfishly devoted to others, philanthropist …

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  • 7altruistic — al·tru·is·tic || ‚æltrÊŠ ɪstɪk adj. generous, unselfish, devoted to others …

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  • 8altruists — al·tru·ist || æltrʊɪst n. one unselfishly devoted to others, philanthropist …

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  • 9selfless — [self′lis] adj. 1. devoted to others welfare or interests and not one s own; unselfish; altruistic 2. showing or prompted by unselfishness or altruism; self sacrificing [a selfless act] selflessly adv. selflessness n …

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  • 10literature — /lit euhr euh cheuhr, choor , li treuh /, n. 1. writings in which expression and form, in connection with ideas of permanent and universal interest, are characteristic or essential features, as poetry, novels, history, biography, and essays. 2.… …

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