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• n  renunciation of your own interests in favor of the interests of others

• In fairness, he wasn't pressed very hard by the Senators, who apparently find precise questions, unlike imprecise speeches, an unnecessary act of self-abnegation.
• Summers doesn't strike me as a Fed material (too much discretion and self-abnegation required).
• The impulse to escape, to vanish: Imagine what paroxysms of weariness and twitchingly muscle-bound identity must overcome a man when eight years of self-abnegation as vice .

• abnegation
• denial
• self-denial
• self-renunciation