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She read in his face that it had been a place of abasement, of degradation and despair. (source)abasement = treat as if of low worth
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The ecstasy of abasement. (source)abasement = treatment as if of low worth
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Should I abase myself? (source)abase = degrade (treat as if of low worth)
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In our world there will be no emotions except fear, rage, triumph, and self-abasement. (source)abasement = treatment as if of low worth
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But the former understood in dismay that Anne was actually enjoying her valley of humiliation—was reveling in the thoroughness of her abasement. (source)
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The echo of the scream had not ceased to ring on the air when there came the reaction, and she sank on her knees on the floor in an agony of abasement. (source)abasement = feeling of low worth
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This sent Albert into a frenzy of abasement.† (source)
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His moral force was abased into more than childish weakness. (source)abased = degraded (lessened or lowered)
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'What joy it will be to grovel and abase myself before the Queen!† (source)
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He was adoring, self-abasing, and grateful when she accepted him.† (source)abasing = treating as if of low worth
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'The nephew, being, as the lucid Madame Flintwinch has remarked, a poor devil who has had everything but his orphan life frightened and famished out of him—the nephew abases his head, and makes response: "My uncle, it is to you to command.† (source)abases = treats as if of low worth
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-an act which is not possible in self-abasement, only in self-exaltation, only in the confidence of being desired and being worthy of desire.† (source)
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So abased, so monotonous is everything that meets the eye, that when the Ganges comes down it might be expected to wash the excrescence back into the soil.† (source)abased = treated as if of low worth
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Meg pardoned him, and Mrs. March's grave face relaxed, in spite of her efforts to keep sober, when she heard him declare that he would atone for his sins by all sorts of penances, and abase himself like a worm before the injured damsel.† (source)
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That would have been a weak and ridiculous mistake, but I can respect a mistake, whereas I can't respect a wilful and deliberate abasing of those who should be nearest and dearest to us.† (source)abasing = treating as if of low worth
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By now it was not so much the bodily hurts that brought them: it was bitterness, self-contempt, and abasement.† (source)
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