Depriving one of self-esteem.
1 Clyde's fiendish mind has not stopped at so simple an abasement , however.
2 And he loved his abasement and delighted in being a brute beast.
3 From the very fact of its complete abasement it drew fresh energy.
4 Pride not yourselves in your glory, and be not ashamed of abasement .
5 She leaned her white cheek a moment against his in speechless self - abasement .
6 His abasement was His glorification; His crown of thorns, a heavenly diadem.
7 And it was through humiliation and abasement that he was brought thither.
8 We see abasement hastening after thee, whilst thou art of the heedless.
9 But if it were true, Basil would wish no pilgrimage of abasement .
10 In them there was a renewal of his yesterday's promise, abasement , regret.
11 Sylvie stayed crouched down, face near the floor, a sign of abasement .
12 In the midst of the deepest self - abasement his heart was overflowing with joy.
13 This is not self - abasement ; it is not the parading of misfortune.
14 The state of the flour-barrel would also produce a like self - abasement .
15 I do not say this in the ridiculous affectation of self - abasement and modesty.
16 His limbs twitched; his features were full of woe and desolation and abasement .
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