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Definition of Abasedly
1. adv. Abjectly; downcastly.
Definition of Abasedly
1. Adverb. In an abased manner; abjectly. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Abasedly
1. abase [adv] - See also: abase
Lexicographical Neighbors of Abasedly
Literary usage of Abasedly
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. In a Day of Social Rebuilding: Lectures on the Ministry of the Church by Henry Sloane Coffin (1918)
"... consecration and adoration, ought to take a congregation through a whole gamut
of moods. The worshipper must feel wistful, again feel abasedly sorry, ..."
2. Essays Biographical and Critical: Chiefly on English Poets by David Masson (1856)
"... which exhibit the poet as " cursing his fate," as " bewailing his outcast
state," as looking about abasedly among his literary contemporaries, ..."
3. The Three Devils: Luther's, Milton's, and Goethe's, with Other Essays by David Masson (1874)
"... abasedly among his literary contemporaries, envying the " art" of one, and
the " scope" of another, and even wishing sometimes that the very features of ..."
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