Abasement
[ə'beɪsmənt]
Definition
(noun.) a low or downcast state; 'each confession brought her into an attitude of abasement'- H.L.Menchken.
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Definition
(n.) The act of abasing, humbling, or bringing low; the state of being abased or humbled; humiliation.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Depression, detrusion, reduction, lowering, fall, deterioration, degradation, debasement, degeneracy, vitiation, perversion, depravation.[2]. Abjectness, abjection, vileness, baseness, contemptibleness, despicableness.[3]. Humiliation, condescension, submission, submissiveness, resignation, humility, meekness, humbleness, lowliness, self-abasement.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Degradation, depression, disgrace, humiliation, abjection, dishonor, shame
ANT:Promotion, elevation, honor, exaltation, dignity, aggrandizement
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Unserious Contents or Definition
n. A decent and customary mental attitude in the presence of wealth or power. Peculiarly appropriate in an employee when addressing an employer.
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Examples
- But they were generally accompanied by a sense of compunction and self-abasement of which Newland Archer felt no trace. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- But she was silent, pleased with the disparity, with her self-abasement. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- It seems I had no dévouement, no récueillement in my character; no spirit of grace, faith, sacrificeor self-abasement. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- If anything was needed to put the last touch to her self-abasement it was the sense of the way her old life was opening its ruts again to receive her. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- She flamed with anger and abasement, and the sickening need of having to conciliate where she longed to humble. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- Will reseated himself, feeling some pity which was half contempt for this voluntary self-abasement of an elderly man. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
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