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abasement
Part of speech: NounThe act of humbling or bringing low.
Usage examples "abasement":- As she had never felt abasement before, so she had never felt the need of being beautiful until now. - "Rose of Dutcher's Coolly", Hamlin Garland.
- Shame and confusion of guilt, and abasement and self- condemnation, Overwhelmed him at once; and he cried in the deepest contrition: " It hath displeased the Lord! - "The Complete Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow", Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.
- Standing, looking at her with eyes that hungered and adored, he began to speak in wonder and self- abasement. - "The Shepherd of the North", Richard Aumerle Maher.