All 3 Uses of
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in
The Scarlet Letter
- If they would serve their fellowmen, let them do it by making manifest the power and reality of conscience, in constraining them to penitential self-abasement!
p. 89.8 *abasement = treatment as if of low worth
- His moral force was abased into more than childish weakness.
p. 107.1abased = degraded (lessened or lowered)
- Strengthened by years of hard and solemn trial, she felt herself no longer so inadequate to cope with Roger Chillingworth as on that night, abased by sin and half-maddened by the ignominy that was still new, when they had talked together in the prison-chamber.
p. 112.4
Definition:
treat as if of low worth -- often of self