Both Uses of
humiliate
in
The Age of Innocence
- On the sideboard, between fluted Sheraton knife-cases, stood a decanter of Haut Brion, and another of the old Lanning port (the gift of a client), which the wastrel Tom Lanning had sold off a year or two before his mysterious and discreditable death in San Francisco—an incident less publicly humiliating to the family than the sale of the cellar.†
Chpt 11 *
- Nevertheless, for a man sick with unsatisfied love, and parting for an indefinite period from the object of his passion, he felt himself almost humiliatingly calm and comforted.†
Chpt 25
Definition:
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(humiliate) extremely embarrass (decrease dignity, self-respect, or pride -- especially in front of others)