All 4 Uses of
abase
in
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
- He had soon given in to them and allowed them to sweep across and abase his intellect, wondering always where they came from, from what den of monstrous images, and always weak and humble towards others, restless and sickened of himself when they had swept over him.†
Chpt 2
- He cowered in the shadow of the thought, abasing himself in the awe of God Who had made all things and all men.†
Chpt 3 *
- Meek and abased by this consciousness of the one eternal omnipresent perfect reality his soul took up again her burden of pieties, masses and prayers and sacraments and mortifications, and only then for the first time since he had brooded on the great mystery of love did he feel within him a warm movement like that of some newly born life or virtue of the soul itself.†
Chpt 4
- What were they now but cerements shaken from the body of death—the fear he had walked in night and day, the incertitude that had ringed him round, the shame that had abased him within and without— cerements, the linens of the grave?†
Chpt 4
Definition:
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(abase) treat as if of low worth -- often of self