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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

SELF-ABASEMENT

n.Humiliation or abasement proceeding from consciouness of inferiority, guilt or shame.

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

SELF-ABASEMENT

SELF-ABASEMENT Self `-a *base "ment, n.

 

1. Degradation of one's self by one's own act.

 

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

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

self-abasement

self-a base ment ▶noun the belittling or humiliation of oneself: he began to apologize with copious tears and self-abasement.

 

Oxford Dictionary

self-abasement

self-abasement |sɛlfəˈbeɪsm (ə )nt | ▶noun [ mass noun ] the belittling or humiliation of oneself.