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[ noun ] a low or downcast state

Examples

: "each confession brought her into an attitude of abasement"- H.L.Menchken

Used in print

(Howard Nemerov, "Themes and Methods: The Early...)

His appearance as Lizzy evokes not amusement but horror in the audience ; it is a spectacle absolutely painful , an epiphany of the suffering flesh unredeemed by spirit , untouched by any spirit other_than abasement and humiliation .

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[ noun ] depriving one of self-esteem
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