“abasement”的英文意思_释义_用法

单词

abasement

释义

abasement|əˈbeɪsmənt|
[f. abase v. after Fr. abaissement: see -ment.]
1. The action of abasing, lowering, casting down, or humbling, in rank or character; humiliation.
1561T. N[orton] Calvin's Inst. i. xiii. 47 (1634) The time was not yet come of his abasement.1589Puttenham Eng. Poesie 266 (1869) And almost speak vntruly and iniuriously by way of abbasement.1748Richardson Clarissa II. ii. 12 (1811) Pride in ourselves must, and forever will, provoke contempt, and bring down upon us abasement from others.1857Buckle Civil. I. viii. 549 The abasement of the clergy preceded the humiliation of the crown.
2. The condition of being abased; humiliation, degradation.
1611Bible Ecclus. xx. 11 There is an abasement because of glory; and there is that lifteth vp his head from a low estate.1747Hervey Medit. II. 136 The deepest Degrees of possible Abasement.1828Carlyle Misc. I. 231 (1857) Conscious of its errors and abasement.1860R. A. Vaughan Ho. w. Mystics (ed. 2) I. 153 True Abandonment, with utter Abasement, was the nearest way to God.

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