all-denying

Updated: May 23, 2025

That was, indeed, a perilous moment for the young convert. The unexpected softness of her father utterly subdued her; nor was she sufficiently possessed of that all-denying zeal of the Catholic enthusiast to which every human tie and earthly duty has been often sacrificed on the shrine of a rapt and metaphysical piety.

Baron Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton - Leila or, the Siege of Granada, Complete

That was, indeed, a perilous moment for the young convert. The unexpected softness of her father utterly subdued her; nor was she sufficiently possessed of that all-denying zeal of the Catholic enthusiast to which every human tie and earthly duty has been often sacrificed on the shrine of a rapt and metaphysical piety.

Baron Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton - Leila or, the Siege of Granada, Book IV.