self-flagellatory

形容词 adj.

英文释义

形容词 adj.
  1. 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. 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, ...

词形变化

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