abasement

How To Use abasement In A Sentence

• First, that the agent of abasement shifts from George the indigene sovereign to the "Sons of Belial. The State of Things: Olaudah Equiano and the Volatile Politics of Heterocosmic Desire
• The result was a lengthy and noisy competition in self-abasement and mutual re-assurance.
• It is not so much an abasement of self as an acknowledgment that one's own way may not be the only or even the best way.
• The failing to do this is the greatest mistake of the present generation, for if girls be capable of nothing but morbid sentiment or what we term flirtation, they will naturally look to matrimony as their destiny and as a means of support -- a self-abasement from which no woman can fully recover, even under the most favorable circumstances. How to Train Girls.
• From clinical examinations, most NE children suffer from mental problems such as depression, self-abasement and difficulties in dealing with personal relations.
• Her solicitor - partly responsible for keeping the 24 year-old's spirits high - approves of the abasement and thus advertises to the world that here is a penitent woman.
• To beg for votes, as if they were alms or broken victuals, is a form of mendicancy which is incompatible with common self-respect, and yet it is a self-abasement which thirty years ago custom imperatively demanded. Fifteen Chapters of Autobiography
• White Fang crawled slowly, cringing and grovelling in the abjectness of his abasement and submission. The Trail of the Gods
• Appeasement and compromise will turn enemies into friends, if groveling and self-abasement do not first drive friends into the enemy camp. Farewell to America's China Station
• But the abasement is the action of My friends who connect themselves with Us and follow the devil in their actions. A Traveler’s Narrative