All 5 Uses
humiliate
in
Passing, by Nella Larsen
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- The words stood out from among the many paragraphs of other words, bringing with them a clear, sharp remembrance, in which even now, after two years, humiliation, resentment, and rage were mingled.†
p. 12.8
- What right, she kept demanding of herself, had Clare Kendry to expose her, or even Gertrude Martin, to such humiliation, such downright insult?†
p. 46.2
- As if, she thought wrathfully, anything could take away the humiliation, or any part of it, of what she had gone through yesterday afternoon for Clare Kendry.†
p. 48.2
- Well—Irene's shoulders went up—one thing was sure: that she needn't, and didn't intend to, lay herself open to any repetition of a humiliation as galling and outrageous as that which, for Clare Kendry's sake, she had borne "that time in Chicago."†
p. 51.8
- Was it, perhaps, that she had endured all that a woman could endure of tormenting humiliation and fear?†
p. 112.3 *
Definitions:
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(1)
(humiliate) extremely embarrass (decrease dignity, self-respect, or pride -- especially in front of others)
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)