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Значения термина self-abasement на английском

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Voluntary self-punishment in order to atone for some wrongdoing.

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        Examples for "penance"
        Examples for "penance"
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        Finally I asked her what was meant by the seven years' penance.
        Harvest Home
        2
        In penance for a great crime, he was ordered to do labors.
        Daughters of the Nile
        3
        The idea of a lifelong penance has taken strong possession of Donatello.
        The Marble Faun; Or, The Romance of Monte Beni - Volume 2
        4
        I would rather do my penance all at once; let me die.
        Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc — Volume 2
        5
        You will have a heavy penance imposed upon you in the confessional.
        A Word, Only a Word — Volume 01
        1
        In its ecclesiastical sense, it denotes those who seek holiness through self-mortification.
        A Short History of Monks and Monasteries
        2
        I wished also to avoid the self-mortification which must ensue from altercation.
        Mark Rutherford's Deliverance
        3
        The release of the tapes was a wholly unnecessary act of self-mortification.
        The new yorker
        4
        If that were true, Celia, my giving-up would be self-indulgence, not self-mortification.
        Middlemarch
        5
        In company with other monks, Siddhattha sought for a while enlightenment by self-mortification.
        The Buddha: A Drama in Five Acts and Four Interludes
        Использование термина self-abasement на английском
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        She leaned her white cheek a moment against his in speechless self-abasement.
        Prisoners: Fast Bound In Misery And Iron
        2
        In the midst of the deepest self-abasement his heart was overflowing with joy.
        Sant' Ilario
        3
        This is not self-abasement; it is not the parading of misfortune.
        Jane Cable
        4
        The state of the flour-barrel would also produce a like self-abasement.
        Frontier Stories
        5
        I do not say this in the ridiculous affectation of self-abasement and modesty.
        The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs,...
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        Indeed, his liberality seemed to have something in it of self-abasement and expiation.
        Tales of a Traveller
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        She was sick at heart; she hated herself for her self-abasement.
        The Captain of the Kansas
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        Tears flowed unrestrainedly over my face as I howled in self-abasement-
        Mrs. Overtheway's Remembrances
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        In those latter times he loved her humbly, with wonder and passionate self-abasement.
        The Dark House
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        The cry struck him down to a lower depth of self-abasement.
        The Reef
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        Moreover, it suggests a passion for self-abasement-andthat cannot be admired.
        Jane and the madness of lord byron: being a jane austen mystery
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        His self-abasement was neither tinctured with affectation, nor with the pride of humility.
        Works of John Bunyan — Volume 01
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        Her enemy, a consummate hypocrite herself, sees in her self-abasement nothing but hypocrisy.
        The Life and Works of Friedrich Schiller
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        And in his self-abasement, he was heroic, unconsciously, as heroes are.
        Greifenstein
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        One night he prayed with peculiar earnestness and self-abasement till morning.
        The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 13
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        All is over for me, she replied with shame and self-abasement.
        War and Peace
        Translations for self-abasement
        португальский
        penitência
        каталонский
        penitència