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Definition of Self-abasement
1. Noun. Voluntary self-punishment in order to atone for some wrongdoing.
Generic synonyms: Penalisation, Penalization, Penalty, Punishment
Definition of Self-abasement
1. Noun. self-punishment in order to atone for some real or imagined wrongdoing. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Self-abasement
Literary usage of Self-abasement
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. System of Christian Doctrine by Carl Immanuel Nitzsch (1849)
"SUBMISSION AND self-abasement. ... of a Divine submission of the Son of God,
conjointly with that of a self-renunciation and self-abasement, John iii. ..."
2. Mental Science: A Compendium of Psychology, and the History of Philosophy by Alexander Bain (1870)
"The sense of positive Worthlessness or Demerit is the genuine pain of self-tenderness,
and is denoted bv the names Humiliation and self-abasement. ..."
3. The Works of Hannah More: With a Sketch of Her Life by Hannah More (1827)
"Such a one, perhaps, cannot always pour out the fulness of his soul within the
prescribed abridgments. spirit of contrition and self-abasement which I to ..."
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