Which preposition to use with abnegations

of Occurrences 24%

The courage of battle is mere brutish insensibility compared with the abnegation of the million mothers who gave their boys to the bestial maw of war.

than Occurrences 2%

Nothing could show more strongly his devotion and self-abnegation than his action in the present crisis.

by Occurrences 2%

But while the Professor grew more and more half-hearted in his protestations that he really didn't care where he went, Mrs. Marshall grew more and more positive that he must not be allowed to miss the music, finally silencing his last weak proffer of self-abnegation by saying peremptorily: "No, no, Elliott; go on in to your debauch of emotion.

like Occurrences 1%

There is no self-abnegation like that of a woman in love.

on Occurrences 1%

Under the cold impassive vigour he was so determined to preserve, he registered many a noble vow of fortitude and abnegation on behalf of the friend he valued, of the woman he loved.

to Occurrences 1%

"Thou and I, my brother, have attained by penances and years of abnegation to that mood which hath been granted the boy as a gift to fit him for the cloister life.

among Occurrences 1%

Is there another instance of such self-abnegation among men?

without Occurrences 1%

So many years in one place, such a dull routine of duty, such a life of abnegation without the honour that sustains and encourages, such impossibility of being understood and appreciated by those for whose sake he has been breaking self upon the wheel of mortification since his youth, have made him old before the time and fixed that look of lurking sadness in his warmly human eyes.

for Occurrences 1%

Very few people would have sufficient self-abnegation for that.

in Occurrences 1%

In their pity for human miseries, their hatred of inequalities and injustice, their self-abnegation in the cause of the humble and unfortunate they were equal; they were not only united by their hearts but by their brains.

Which preposition to use with  abnegations