Humiliations
[hju:,mɪli:'eɪʃənz]
Examples
- 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.
Typed by Jed