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Meanings of abase in English
Synonyms
Examples for "humble"
Examples for "humble"
1
The Catholics in Massachusetts were, in general, in a very humble class.
2
I feel extremely humble, grateful and excited to continue on that path.
3
It's from this humble beginning that a new age of travel began.
4
The majority of the converts were probably in a humble social position.
5
Stay humble and just try to win basketball games. TV: 7 p.m.
1
And much to her chagrin, Alice saw Jim walk right past Charlotte.
2
She bit her lip in the intensity of her chagrin and shame.
3
A few minutes later Deanna stared at the empty plate with chagrin.
4
In the mean time, his chagrin was appeased by a new project.
5
To the mortification and chagrin of his brothers, Washington declined the position.
1
But he didn't even need an Angus Young impression to humiliate himself.
2
The soldiers wanted to humiliate me, to put me in my place.
3
Do not humiliate me in the presence of my friends this afternoon.
4
Femen's tactics aim to do just that: hurt and humiliate them personally.
5
At other times Janet had seen him overrule them ruthlessly; humiliate them.
1
Paine did not hesitate to mortify both these failings in his fellow-men.
2
Though I showed nothing of it, it served only to mortify me.
3
She looked around her with disdainful eyes, eager to mortify the painter.
4
Now, I do not ask you to restrain and mortify these things.
5
She'd like to know what there was about her to mortify anybody?
Usage of abase in English
1
O my God, the hearts of the wise abase themselves before Thee.
2
Thou dost exalt whomsoever Thou willest and dost abase whomsoever Thou willest.
3
He exalteth whom He will, and whom He will He doth abase.
4
Render Thy Cause victorious, O my Lord, and abase Thou Thine enemies.
5
He dropped to his knees like a supplicant preparing to abase himself.
6
If thou aidest Me not, why dost thou seek to abase Me?
7
As abase cost, use 20 Monits per Light-year, modified as shown:
8
He would leave the good unprotected and exposed to abase from the bad.
9
Thou hadst intended to abase thyself in her service-andbetrayed her.
10
Like primitives you think we abase before gods carved in rock?
11
Was it to abase the pride of human intellect and genius?
12
Beforehand, they denounced that man who should abase himself by compliance.
13
I can't abase my mind low enough to fathom that man.
14
Thou raisest up whom thou wilt, and whom thou wilt thou dost abase!
15
I will never willingly abase myself again, not even for Lans!
16
Each gets what it desires, but the great state must learn to abase itself.
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Abase through the time
Abase across language varieties
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