Voluntary self-punishment in order to atone for some wrongdoing.
1She leaned her white cheek a moment against his in speechless self-abasement.
2In the midst of the deepest self-abasement his heart was overflowing with joy.
3This is not self-abasement; it is not the parading of misfortune.
4The state of the flour-barrel would also produce a like self-abasement.
5I do not say this in the ridiculous affectation of self-abasement and modesty.
6Indeed, his liberality seemed to have something in it of self-abasement and expiation.
7She was sick at heart; she hated herself for her self-abasement.
8Tears flowed unrestrainedly over my face as I howled in self-abasement-
9In those latter times he loved her humbly, with wonder and passionate self-abasement.
10The cry struck him down to a lower depth of self-abasement.
11Moreover, it suggests a passion for self-abasement-andthat cannot be admired.
12His self-abasement was neither tinctured with affectation, nor with the pride of humility.
13Her enemy, a consummate hypocrite herself, sees in her self-abasement nothing but hypocrisy.
14And in his self-abasement, he was heroic, unconsciously, as heroes are.
15One night he prayed with peculiar earnestness and self-abasement till morning.
16All is over for me, she replied with shame and self-abasement.
Translations for self-abasement