Humiliation
[,hjuːmɪlɪ'eɪʃn] or [hjʊ,mɪlɪ'eʃən]
Definition
(noun.) depriving one of self-esteem.
(noun.) an instance in which you are caused to lose your prestige or self-respect; 'he had to undergo one humiliation after another'.
(noun.) state of disgrace or loss of self-respect.
Checked by Barlow--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) The act of humiliating or humbling; abasement of pride; mortification.
(n.) The state of being humiliated, humbled, or reduced to lowliness or submission.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Condescension, resignation, submission.[2]. Humility, meekness, humbleness, lowliness, lowness, submissiveness.[3]. Abasement, self-abasement, self-denial, mortification.
Editor: Tracy
Synonyms and Antonyms
[See ABASEMENT]
Edited by Augustus
Examples
- Then, what submission, what cringing and fawning, what servility, what abject humiliation! Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- Was that humiliation to be put upon him by his own blood? Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- A great outcry has arisen and a number of perfectly conventional men like Lorimer suffer an undeserved humiliation. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- But he was not able to admit he was wrong that quickly and he said it anyway to delay the moment of humiliation, not accepting any humiliation. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- I cannot allow that there is any humiliation. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- She drew back from the spectacle of my humiliation and of her triumph. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- What will the Duke say, he murmured, when he hears that one of the family has been subjected to such humiliation? Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- He was altogether discontented with the result of a contrivance which had cost him some secret humiliation beforehand. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Her father sat below, powerless in humiliation and chagrin. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Thus his humiliation was spread broadcast, and in addition he was ordered to be held at Rome as a prisoner. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- Yet, how just a humiliation! Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
- I have endured everything here but humiliation. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- Every moment had brought a fresh surprize; and every surprize must be matter of humiliation to her. Jane Austen. Emma.
- He would embark in a balloon; he would sail for a distant quarter of the world, where his name and humiliation were unknown. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- Penitence, humiliation, shame, pride, love, and trustfulness--I see them all; and in them all, I see that horror of I don't know what. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- How will she bear the shocks and repulses, the humiliations and desolations, which books, and my own reason, tell me are prepared for all flesh? Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- It is from the festering humiliations of peoples that arrogant religious propagandas spring. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- She would be free forever from the shifts, the expedients, the humiliations of the relatively poor. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- The humiliation of the Japanese by these events was intense, and it would seem that the salvation of peoples lies largely in such humiliations. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Such are the humiliations that society has inflicted upon me, possessing the qualities I have mentioned, and which you know me to possess. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
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