Abasement

Swearing allegiance to the powers that be in a ritual of public abasement is something that should have gone out with feudalism. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Admit what you don't know (self-abasement is not attractive, by the way) and listen to the information you are given. ❋ Maggie Jochild (2007)

Without George, Equiano's abasement is without an agent, and therefore his connection to the invisible church reverts from one of masochistic practice to one of readerly identification. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Now, however, it is part of the lingo of abasement. ❋ William Safire (2003)

I was heartily ashamed of myself, and mingled with my abasement was a great relief. ❋ Mary Roberts Rinehart (1917)

But the abasement is the action of My friends who connect themselves with Us and follow the devil in their actions. ❋ 1844-1921 `Abdu'l-Bah�� (1882)

His abasement was His glorification; His crown of thorns, a heavenly diadem. ❋ 1844-1921 `Abdu'l-Bah�� (1882)

It might be fairly presumed, that the most sublime and virtuous of human spirits was infused into the offspring of Mary and the Holy Ghost; that his abasement was the result of his voluntary choice; and that the object of his mission was, to purify, not his own, but the sins of the world. ❋ Edward Gibbon (1765)

It might be fairly presumed, that the most sublime and virtuous of human spirits was infused into the offspring of Mary and the Holy Ghost; [9] that his abasement was the result of his voluntary choice; and that the object of his mission was, to purify, not his own, but the sins of the world. ❋ Edward Gibbon (1765)

I may now safely say, that humility essentially consists in self-abasement, which is self-degradation, or a voluntary sinking not only be - low others, but below ourselves. ❋ Unknown (1812)

If the US Administration Foreign Policy of "abasement" towards terrorist, theocratic and ethnocratic regimes results in Hezbollah losing an election, public uprising in Iran and even Bibi to acknowledge a Palestinian State (albeit demilitarised), then it appears to me that they are doing a good thing for the region. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Associations connected with the "abasement" series are strongly characterised by histrionic ideas, and by sense imagery, which to a great degree merges into a histrionic character. ❋ Francis Galton (1866)

Thus the word "abasement" presented itself to me, in one of my experiments, by my mentally placing myself in a pantomimic attitude of humiliation with half-closed eyes, bowed head, and uplifted palms, while at the same time I was aware of myself as of a mental puppet, in that position. ❋ Francis Galton (1866)

Familiar with the lowest kind of abasement of life, the knowledge is used, by both him and them, to teach what constitutes its essential elevation; and by the very coarseness and vulgarity of the materials employed we measure the gentlemanliness and beauty of the work that is done. ❋ John Forster (1844)

If I was the pearl of price, you have adorned her with it -- my abasement is her glory! " ❋ William Kirby (1861)

"abasement" that the word "David" or "King David" occurred to me on one occasion in each of three out of the four trials; also that an accidental misreading, or perhaps the merely punning association of the words "a basement," brought up on all four occasions the image of the foundations of a house that the builders had begun upon. ❋ Francis Galton (1866)