noun
- the act of humbling or degrading oneself or being humbled by others
Usage: formal
Examples
- His public abasement before the committee was painful to watch.
- She refused to accept the abasement that came with the unfair treatment.
- The dictator’s abasement of his opponents was a common tactic.
- He felt a deep sense of abasement after his failure.
- The ritual involved the abasement of the initiate before the elders.
- Her abasement was complete when she had to beg for forgiveness.