Cause to feel shame; hurt the pride of.
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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 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.
Hold within limits and control.
To destroy somebody's confidence or happiness; to humiliate.
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?
6 Making this public would just mortify his mother and embarrass the women.
7 I shall mortify him; but that is a trifle compared with actual misery.
8 We are to mortify the flesh and thwart the carnal mind.
9 But she passed the matter over in silence, not caring to mortify him.
10 If you mortify the deeds of the body, you shall live.
11 The effect of this misfortune was to mortify and infuriate them.
12 His application was received coldly, and in a way to mortify him exceedingly.
13 Such was the man who was to mortify the pride of Fitzgerald Fletcher.
14 And to mortify the wife would be to act as a heartless scoundrel.
15 I am afraid, but it is right to mortify the spirit.
16 They will rob me of the very qualities that mortify them.
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