英和和英

副詞

sacrificingly (comparative more sacrificingly, superlative most sacrificingly)

1. In a sacrificing manner.
   • 1897, “STANFORD, Mrs. Jane Lathrop”, in Frances E[lizabeth] Willard, Mary A[shton] Livermore, editors, American Women: Fifteen Hundred Biographies with over 1,400 Portraits: […], revised edition, volume II, New York, N.Y.; Chicago, Ill.; Springfield, Oh.: Mast, Crowell & Kirkpatrick, →OCLC, page 676, column 2:

     During the tedious lawsuit of 1895 and 1896, which threatened to involve the means her husband had left for the maintenance of the university, she sacrificingly used her personal means to help over until the suit was gained.

   • 1904 December 3, “Dedication of the Doremus Hall”, in The Japan Weekly Mail: A Review of Japanese Commerce, Politics, Literature, and Art, volume XLII, number 23, Yokohama, →OCLC, page 620, column 2:

     Hon. Lloyd C[arpenter] Griscom said, on being introduced, it was not his intention to make a formal speech, but to give expression to his appreciation of [Women’s Union] Mission work, and especially woman’s work, for the home life of the people for whom they so sacrificingly laboured.

   • 1935 January 26, “G.” [pseudonym], “Motion Picture Daily’s Hollywood Preview: ‘When a Man’s a Man’”, in Martin Quigley, editor, Motion Picture Daily […], volume 37, number 22, New York, N.Y.: Motion Picture Daily, Inc., Quigley Publications, Inc., →ISSN, page 4, column 2:

     [George] O’Brien, a rich man’s son, losing all, comes west, locates on a ranch where the owner, his daughter (Dorothy Wilson) and the foreman (Paul Kelly) are being crowded out by Harry Woods’ villainy. O’Brien tames a horse, his objective, saves the ranch and gets the girl while Kelly, sacrificingly, rides off.

   • 1989, Leonard Doohan, “[Ministering in Church Structures] Reflections”, in Grass Roots Pastors: A Handbook for Career Lay Ministers, San Francisco, Calif.: Harper & Row, →ISBN, page 114:

     Major Church authorities have no recognizable bodies to deal with, no fixed ministries. This limits the long-term impact of these lay ministers internal to the Church they sacrificingly serve.

   • 1989, Sybille Bedford, “Part IV: Anchorage: France”, in Jigsaw: An Unsentimental Education: A Biographical Novel, London: Hamish Hamilton, →ISBN, chapter III, page 100:

     That war could be launched into because men and women light-mindedly – often unselfishly, I give you, sacrificingly – believed that war was permissible, controllable, sometimes right; […]

   • 2000, Helen Gurley Brown, “Calling You at Work”, in I’m Wild Again: Snippets from My Life and a Few Brazen Thoughts, New York, N.Y.: St. Martin’s Press, →ISBN, page 253:

     I sacrificingly give the caller five minutes to babble, cursing and resenting every second.

   • 2008, Nerissa Nields, “Forgiveness”, in How to Be an Adult: A Musician’s Guide to Navigating Your Twenties, Northampton, Mass.: Mercy House Publishing, →ISBN, part 2 (Taking Care of the Vehicle That Is You), page 60:

     [W]ould I like it if I left the dishes in the sink just once, and went into the next room to play my guitar, and Tom sighed all passive-aggressively and banged around the dishes as he sacrificingly cleaned them?

関連する語

• self-sacrificingly