What is "unselfish"

Usage examples of "unselfish".

From the Misses Tripp we learn she was devoted, unselfish, unworldly and altogether a beautiful character.

Gently she puts aside the proffered help of Wolfram, whose unselfish love is ever with her, climbs the hill to the castle, and dies.

Returning to Philadelphia, he took this city as the base of his unselfish and unpartisan labors in behalf of the great and multiplying population from his fatherland, which through its sectarian divisions had become so helpless and spiritually needy.

I also remembered her to be a very gentle and unselfish woman, and a very timid one, timid to the point of being thoroughly sub- servient to anyone who happened to be around.

Why the ultimate desire of the heart is forever ungranted and an intrinsically unselfish love too often finds itself defeated--these questions, in his way, he asked of his soul, and he demanded, with wild weeping, their answer from the dead rejoicing in the paling Valhalla.

How our Lord made His own unselfish and unsinful will to bow to silence and to praise before the holy will of His Father, till that gave the finishing touch to His always sanctified will and heart!

Lend-Lease, which will stand forth as the most unselfish and unsordid financial act of any country in all history.

So, during a lunch of chitlins, topped off with coffee and crackers and Liederkranz, Mrs Roosevelt told us how proud and unselfish and energetic the men and women were over the tank-assembly line at Green Diamond Plough.

Be that as it may, when the deed was done Arthur had inspired in Cai the kind of devotion few men ever know: zealous, deep, unselfish, stronger and more steadfast than death.

Here is a young lady of, say, twenty-three years, inclining already to stoutness, domestic, placid, with matron written on every line of her unselfish face, capable of being, if necessity were, a notable housekeeper, learned in preserves and jellies and cordials, sure to have her closets in order, and a place for every remnant, piece of twine, and all odds and ends.

One who is prepared to be unselfish enough to allow himself to go into deep trance whilst the remaining sitters see and hear what is happening in the circle.

The Utopians will hold that if you keep the children from profitable employment for the sake of the future, then, if you want any but the exceptionally rich, secure, pious, unselfish, or reckless to bear children freely, you must be prepared to throw the cost of their maintenance upon the general community.

He was wonderful, this nut from Cawker City, wonderfully brave and unselfish and good.

And, however little in its feature and language the foreground may seem to take color of it, I shall always believe that the consecration of the rivers and paths, by explorations and ministries that were for the most part as unselfish as France's scholarship is to-day, must in some subtle way have had such a potency as the catalytic substances which work miracles in matter and yet are beyond the discerning of the scientist.

And it was then that the great day came, the marvellous day when We-hro discovered his second self, his playmate, his loyal, unselfish, loving friend--his underbred, unwashed, hungry, vagabond dog, born white and spotless, but begrimed by contact with the world, the mud, and the white man's hovel.