Eschew vs Sacrifice - What's the difference?
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To offer (something) as a gift to a deity.
To give away (something valuable) to get at least a possibility to gain something else of value (such as self-respect, trust, love, freedom, prosperity), or to avoid an even greater loss.
* “Don’t you break my heart / ’Cause I sacrifice to make you happy.” - From the song Baby Don’t You Do It by Marvin Gaye
* “God sacrificed His only-begotten Son, so that all people might have eternal life.” (a paraphrase of John 3:16).
* Prior
* G. Eliot
To trade (a value of higher worth) for one of lesser worth in order to gain something else valued more such as an ally or business relationship or to avoid an even greater loss; to sell without profit to gain something other than money.
* (Ayn Rand), Atlas Shrugged
(chess) To intentionally give up (a piece) in order to improve one’s position on the board.
(baseball) To advance (a runner on base) by batting the ball so it can be caught or fielded, placing the batter out, but with insufficient time to put the runner out.
To sell at a price less than the cost or actual value.
To destroy; to kill.
The offering of anything to a god; consecratory rite.
* Milton
Destruction or surrender of anything for the sake of something else; devotion of some desirable object in behalf of a higher object, or to a claim deemed more pressing.
Something sacrificed.
* Milton
(baseball) A play in which the batter is intentionally out in order that runners can advance around the bases.
A loss of profit.
(slang, dated) A sale at a price less than the cost or the actual value.
As verbs the difference between eschew and sacrifice
is that eschew is (formal) to avoid; to shun, to shy away from while sacrifice is to offer (something) as a gift to a deity.As a noun sacrifice is
the offering of anything to a god; consecratory rite.eschew
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Usage notes
* The verb is not normally applied to the avoidance or shunning of a person or physical object, but rather, only to the avoidance or shunning of an idea, concept, or other intangible.Quotations
{{timeline , 1500s=1599 , 1900s=1927 , 2010s=2014}} * *: What cannot be eschew’d must be embrac’d. * 1927 , *: He could afford no servants, and would admit but few visitors to his absolute solitude; eschewing close friendships and receiving his rare acquaintances in one of the three ground-floor rooms which he kept in order. * '>citationDerived terms
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(wikipedia sacrifice)Verb
(sacrific)- Condemned to sacrifice his childish years / To babbling ignorance, and to empty fears.
- The Baronet had sacrificed a large sum making this boy his heir.
- If you exchange a penny for a dollar, it is not a sacrifice ; if you exchange a dollar for a penny, it is.
- (Johnson)
Synonyms
* (sell without profit) sell at a lossDerived terms
* sacrificialNoun
(en noun)- Great pomp, and sacrifice , and praises loud, / To Dagon.
- the sacrifice of one's spare time in order to volunteer
- Moloch, horrid king, besmeared with blood / Of human sacrifice .
