All 17 Uses of
humiliate
in
Middlemarch
- She was humiliated to find herself a mere victim of feeling, as if she could know nothing except through that medium: all her strength was scattered in fits of agitation, of struggle, of despondency, and then again in visions of more complete renunciation, transforming all hard conditions into duty.†
Chpt 2humiliated = extremely embarrassed (decreased dignity)
- We are angered even by the full acceptance of our humiliating confessions—how much more by hearing in hard distinct syllables from the lips of a near observer, those confused murmurs which we try to call morbid, and strive against as if they were the oncoming of numbness!†
Chpt 2humiliating = extremely embarrassing (decreasing dignity)
- To be puffed by ignorance was not only humiliating, but perilous, and not more enviable than the reputation of the weather-prophet.†
Chpt 3 *
- We are all humiliated by the sudden discovery of a fact which has existed very comfortably and perhaps been staring at us in private while we have been making up our world entirely without it.†
Chpt 4humiliated = extremely embarrassed (decreased dignity)
- Five minutes before, the expanse of his life had been submerged in its evening sunshine which shone backward to its remembered morning: sin seemed to be a question of doctrine and inward penitence, humiliation an exercise of the closet, the bearing of his deeds a matter of private vision adjusted solely by spiritual relations and conceptions of the divine purposes.†
Chpt 5
- Perhaps it was not possible for Lydgate, under the double stress of outward material difficulty and of his own proud resistance to humiliating consequences, to imagine fully what this sudden trial was to a young creature who had known nothing but indulgence, and whose dreams had all been of new indulgence, more exactly to her taste.†
Chpt 6humiliating = extremely embarrassing (decreasing dignity)
- I understand your shrinking from the humiliation of these money affairs.†
Chpt 6
- He was altogether discontented with the result of a contrivance which had cost him some secret humiliation beforehand.†
Chpt 6
- Bulstrode had indirectly helped to cause the failure of his practice, and had also been highly gratified by getting a medical partner in his plans:—but who among us ever reduced himself to the sort of dependence in which Lydgate now stood, without trying to believe that he had claims which diminished the humiliation of asking?†
Chpt 7
- In his shrinking from the humiliation of a dependent attitude towards Bulstrode, he began to familiarize his imagination with another step even more unlike his remembered self.†
Chpt 7
- I must know what is the foul speech that I am liable to be the victim of," said Bulstrode, a certain amount of anger beginning to mingle with his humiliation before this quiet man who renounced his benefits.†
Chpt 7
- The deep humiliation with which he had winced under Caleb Garth's knowledge of his past and rejection of his patronage, alternated with and almost gave way to the sense of safety in the fact that Garth, and no other, had been the man to whom Raffles had spoken.†
Chpt 7
- The sufferings of his own pride from humiliations past and to come were keen enough, yet they were hardly distinguishable to himself from that more acute pain which dominated them—the pain of foreseeing that Rosamond would come to regard him chiefly as the cause of disappointment and unhappiness to her.†
Chpt 7
- Mr. Farebrother said little: he was deeply mournful: with a keen perception of human weakness, he could not be confident that under the pressure of humiliating needs Lydgate had not fallen below himself.†
Chpt 7humiliating = extremely embarrassing (decreasing dignity)
- When she had resolved to go down, she prepared herself by some little acts which might seem mere folly to a hard onlooker; they were her way of expressing to all spectators visible or invisible that she had begun a new life in which she embraced humiliation.†
Chpt 8
- Nevertheless, in her new humiliating uncertainty she dared do nothing but comply.†
Chpt 8humiliating = extremely embarrassing (decreasing dignity)
- Perhaps: but concealment had been the habit of his life, and the impulse to confession had no power against the dread of a deeper humiliation.†
Chpt 8
Definition:
extremely embarrass (decrease dignity, self-respect, or pride -- especially in front of others)