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Meanings of self-abasement in English
Synonyms
Examples for "penance"
Examples for "penance"
1
Finally I asked her what was meant by the seven years' penance.
2
In penance for a great crime, he was ordered to do labors.
3
The idea of a lifelong penance has taken strong possession of Donatello.
4
I would rather do my penance all at once; let me die.
5
You will have a heavy penance imposed upon you in the confessional.
1
In its ecclesiastical sense, it denotes those who seek holiness through self-mortification.
2
I wished also to avoid the self-mortification which must ensue from altercation.
3
The release of the tapes was a wholly unnecessary act of self-mortification.
4
If that were true, Celia, my giving-up would be self-indulgence, not self-mortification.
5
In company with other monks, Siddhattha sought for a while enlightenment by self-mortification.
Usage of self-abasement in English
1
She leaned her white cheek a moment against his in speechless self-abasement.
2
In the midst of the deepest self-abasement his heart was overflowing with joy.
3
This is not self-abasement; it is not the parading of misfortune.
4
The state of the flour-barrel would also produce a like self-abasement.
5
I do not say this in the ridiculous affectation of self-abasement and modesty.
6
Indeed, his liberality seemed to have something in it of self-abasement and expiation.
7
She was sick at heart; she hated herself for her self-abasement.
8
Tears flowed unrestrainedly over my face as I howled in self-abasement-
9
In those latter times he loved her humbly, with wonder and passionate self-abasement.
10
The cry struck him down to a lower depth of self-abasement.
11
Moreover, it suggests a passion for self-abasement-andthat cannot be admired.
12
His self-abasement was neither tinctured with affectation, nor with the pride of humility.
13
Her enemy, a consummate hypocrite herself, sees in her self-abasement nothing but hypocrisy.
14
And in his self-abasement, he was heroic, unconsciously, as heroes are.
15
One night he prayed with peculiar earnestness and self-abasement till morning.
16
All is over for me, she replied with shame and self-abasement.
Translations for self-abasement
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