self-flagellatory

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. sıfat Characterized by self-flagellation; extremely repentant.

   “In this sense, the currently fashionable self-flagellatory school of history is, at the very least, as arrogant and self-centered as the more traditional kind of self-serving history.”

2. sıfat Self-sacrificing.

   “In war-time, self-sacrifice would be the obvious appropriate antidote to this depression, and some such mechanism is clearly at work in, for example, Vera Brittain's self-flagellatory dedication to her voluntary nursing, ...”