sacrificially
Giving oneself up
In a manner involving sacrifice—giving up something valued for a higher purpose or another's benefit.
The word carries connotations of selflessness and often religious overtones: She sacrificially gave up her career to care for her aging parents.
In religious contexts, it refers to ritual offerings: The lamb was sacrificially slaughtered.
Sacred ritual table
- offeringSomething presented or given
- atonementCompensation for wrongdoing
- propitiationAct of placating deity
- oblationReligious gift offering
immolation · consecration · libation · burnt offering · temple · priest · tabernacle · votive
Suffering for conviction
- gallantCourageously attentive and refined
- valiantCourageously determined
- courageousShowing bravery under threat
- nobleTitled or virtuous
ultimate price · fallen · tribute · memorial · honor · duty · patriotic · wartime
Transferring to another
- renunciationFormal surrender of claim
- surrenderCease resistance, yield
- forgoingVoluntarily doing without
- relinquishmentFormal giving up
abnegation · self-denial · martyrdom · devotion · dedication · unselfishness · altruism · generosity
altar
Sacred ritual table
- offeringSomething presented or given
- atonementCompensation for wrongdoing
- propitiationAct of placating deity
oblation · immolation · consecration · libation · burnt offering · temple · priest · tabernacle · votive · incense
martyrdom
Suffering for conviction
- gallantCourageously attentive and refined
- valiantCourageously determined
- courageousShowing bravery under threat
noble · ultimate price · fallen · tribute · memorial · honor · duty · patriotic · wartime · soldier
giving
Transferring to another
- renunciationFormal surrender of claim
- surrenderCease resistance, yield
- forgoingVoluntarily doing without
relinquishment · abnegation · self-denial · martyrdom · devotion · dedication · unselfishness · altruism · generosity · magnanimity
sacrificiallyselfishly
In a self-centered manner
egoistically · greedily · egotistically · acquisitively · exploitatively
sacrificiallycalculatingly
With deliberate scheming intent
opportunistically · pragmatically · transactionally · conditionally · expediently
- sacrificial loveCaring through personal cost
- sacrificial lambOne offered for others' benefit
- sacrificial altarPlatform for religious offerings
- sacrificial victimOne ritually killed
- sacrificial riteReligious offering of life
- sacrificial animalCreature killed for deity