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The act of abasing, humbling, or bringing low; the state of being abased or humbled; humiliation.

Humiliation or abasement proceeding from consciousness of inferiority, guilt, or shame.

A low or downcast state; meanness of spirit; abasement; degradation. That this should be termed baseness, abjection of mind, or servility, is it credible Hooker.

The state of being abject; abasement; meanness; servility. Grew.

haracter, or reputation; baseness; moral, physical, or intellectual degeneracy; disgrace; abasement; debasement. The . . . degradation of a needy man of letters. Macaulay. Deplorable is the degradation of our nature. South. Moments there frequently must be, when a sidegradation of his state. Blair.

Humiliation; abasement, as of pride.

ration, or the state of being deprived of dignity; a lowering in estimation; degradation; abasement. The world's opinion or diminution of me. Eikon Basilike. Nor thinks it diminution to be ranked In military honor next. Philips.

A state of depression; low state; abasement. [Colloq.] It the downs of life too much outnumber the ups. M. Arnold.

g of guilt by suffering or penalty. His liberality seemed to have something in it of self-abasement and expiation. W. Irving.

state of being in one's right or sane mind (after unconsciousness, passion, delirium, or abasement); as, the man has come to himself. By himself, alone; unaccompanied; apart; sequestered; as, he sits or studies by himself. -- To leave one to himself, to withdraw from him; to let him take his own course.…

Humbleness; abasement; low obeisance. [Obs.] Chaucer. Spenser.

The act of humiliating or humbling; abasement of pride; mortification. Bp. Hopkins.

's own worth; a sense of one's own unworthiness through imperfection and sinfulness; self-abasement; humbleness. Serving the Lord with all humility of mind. Acts xx. 19.