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1. : a surrender of one's selfish interests or desires
the earnest prayer and the complete self-abandonment which arise from wise reading and true meditation — Phyllis Hodgson
2. : a lack of self-restraint
has in its relaxed self-abandonment something underbred and ignoble — Matthew Arnold